To the Editor:
As families spend more time together during the pandemic, they are resorting to watching adult-rated TV shows that are probably going to be inappropriate for children, or even harmful. Why? Because Hollywood very rarely produces programming that is appropriate for the entire family to view together. But increasingly, that is what families want.
Hollywood should realize that this is a golden opportunity to better serve an underserved market. At the same time, parents should remember that even though they might be there to mitigate harmful messages, they are still only mitigating.
Watching explicit content with children does not entirely eliminate the harm done by exposing them to content that is neither emotionally nor developmentally appropriate.