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Thread ID: 4377 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-01-08
2003-01-08 07:59 | User Profile
ARRRRRRGHH!!!!! Just saw this linked from another site and had to show it to you guys! ARRRRGHH!!! (I hope this is the appropriate area. Gun Control=2nd Amendment=Constitutional Issues?)
[url=http://www.channeloklahoma.com/health/1871176/detail.html]http://www.channeloklahoma.com/health/1871...176/detail.html[/url]
White Dads More Likely To Allow Toy Guns Study: Most Parents Say Toy Guns 'Never OK'
POSTED: 12:23 p.m. EST January 6, 2003
Why do some parents allow their children to play with toy guns, while others shudder at the thought?
According to a study by a Johns Hopkins researcher, race, gender and other social factors may help explain. The study is published in the January issue of Pediatrics.
Dr. Tina Cheng and colleagues surveyed more than 900 parents and guardians visiting pediatricians' offices in Washington, D.C., and its suburbs. The survey included questions on child-rearing attitudes and practices, lifestyle, and demographic information. More than half of all respondents were black, and the majority were mothers.
Almost 70 percent of parents surveyed felt it was "never OK" for a parent to let a child play with toy guns. The parents who allowed their children to play with toy guns were more likely to be white males, with male children. Mothers of younger children were more likely to limit toy gun play.
In general, researchers found the gender and age of the child, gender of the parent, and race of the family factored significantly into parents' attitudes about allowing their children to play with toy guns.
"This study calls attention to an issue that has been largely unstudied -- assessing community norms on toy gun play from the perspective of parents," said Cheng, director of general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Cheng led the study while at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
According to Cheng, some studies have linked toy gun play with aggressive behavior, and some child health professionals counsel families to limit this type of activity. Critics say children playing with toy guns may confuse them with real guns.
"There needs to be more study on the impact of toy gun play on child behavior. Understanding what parents think about issues like toy gun play and what their parenting practices are may be a first step in designing effective community-based prevention programs," Cheng said
2003-01-08 14:13 | User Profile
Cheng. That's all we need to know.
Advice typical of a race of happy slaves. :angry:
2003-01-08 15:42 | User Profile
**According to Cheng, some studies have linked toy gun play with aggressive behavior, and some child health professionals counsel families to limit this type of activity. **
Absolutely true. I played with toy guns my entire formative years, and the day I turned 18 I enlisted to serve my country. Must have been latent agression brought about by toy guns. No wonder these pseudo-psycologists want to eliminate toy gun play and guns period. I notice they site no demographic data showing how "White Males" who play with toy guns are about 70% less likely to engage in gun crime when adults than those "well raised" children whose parents limit toy gun exposure.
2003-01-08 16:48 | User Profile
"Understanding what parents think about issues like toy gun play and what their parenting practices are may be a first step in designing effective community-based prevention programs," Cheng said.
To prevent what?
2003-01-09 03:00 | User Profile
mwdallas,
To prevent what?
Freedom!
2003-01-09 04:02 | User Profile
I have heard of fathers who do not want their children to play with toy guns because they believe that would instill a frivolous attitude about firearms and prevent them from having a proper respect for them. They believe in the proper instruction of their children with real firearms at the appropriate time. I'm not sure I agree with that, but I can respect their point of view.
Any White man who would encourage his son to reject a vital part of his heritage is an unfit father.