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Source: http://enewslink.asia1.com.sg/brsweb/read_150.brsw?this=result&QDT=1&QFLST=HD%3AHG%3APD&DB=ST%3ABT%4005-07&QSTR=%28%28teens%29%29.HD.&DTSTR=%28%28PD+%3E=+20050310%29+and+%28PD+%3C=+20070810%29%29&PSZ=10&MAXL=200&SUMY=2&HLT=0&LSTN=140&ID=000021483@ST06
Pub Date: 15/05/2006 Pub: ST Page: H5
Supplement: Teen Scene Investigation
Headline: Teens mature enough? No way, say parents
By: Jessica Lim
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WATCHING R21 movies is commonplace, even acceptable, said most of the teens
that The Straits Times spoke to.
Out of 15 teenagers, aged between 15 and 19, 11 said it was 'pretty normal'.
'We see violence and sex everywhere on the Internet and on TV,' said Joanna
Cheng, a Secondary 4 Manjusri Secondary School student. 'Teenagers nowadays
treat such movies as part of everyday life. It is no big deal.'
Eight felt that the age restriction for entry into such movies should be
lowered. After all, as Sec 3 Methodist Girls' School student Lisa Lim, 15,
pointed out: 'Movies can be downloaded anywhere, so there is no point putting
an age restriction on movie theatres.'
Tricia Lim, 19, summed up the general sentiment: 'I think I am pretty mature
for my age and I can handle the sex and violence shown in these movies. I don't
mimic what I see.'
Parents, naturally, are more conservative.
Said 51-year-old businesswoman Jessie Liau: 'I do not think that the R21
restriction should be tampered with. It protects these kids from controversial
issues that they might not be ready to be exposed to. They might find it
disturbing.'
She has three daughters - aged 23, 19 and 15.
Some students agree with Mrs Liau.
Aaron Mossadeg, 13, a Sec 2 student at St Gabriel's Secondary School, who
watched Sin City when his friend's father purchased the VCD during the December
school holidays last year, said: 'The violent scenes were disturbing. I kept my
eyes squeezed shut at a few points.' - JESSICA LIM

My Commentary
This is certainly very common, and as a fellow teenager, i do not encourage or strongly voice out any opposition against such behavior. As teens, we are keen on exploring the world and such and wondering whether all that we have learnt in our tender single digit years have served to liberate us or to trap us in a cage we don't even realise we're in. Such 'liberation' techniques would of course apply to viewing media of all sorts, especially movies with strong violence, nudity and the like. Of course a little bit of this and that might not be harmful, but in the long run, parents would most definity object. They want their children to be conservative, to lead lives of no shame, to become holy angels, nuns and monks all the damn time. Guess what folks? Life ain't that pretty. Life is cruel. If you hide your kids from what the world really is, when they are thrown into such a place without any instinct of survival, these children, these people, these brainwashed ideological fools will be eradicated immediately. Better let your children know of the dangers in society and prepare for it. Better let them have access to such media, but with the weaponary of combating its influences. Such people are the ones to survive and inherit this earth. Most teens think they are 'mature' enough to handle this. But actually, they are being more influenced by such media than they think they are, they are desensitised. A greater likelihood of being criminals and psychopaths in the future perhaps. All because of their hormones, and the desperate shielding of such anti-behavioral concepts by their parents. These parents are much to blame as well. If they stopped thinking that their children were still angels at 15, they could finally cut their fantasies and work on facing their kids with reality. Otherwise our world would be full of overconfident children and parents in self-denial.

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