This system has been in effect since Jan. 1, 1997. The television-rating system has four major problems. First, it doesn't work. Even the TV-G programs contained an average of two and a half scenes per hour of alcohol being consumed, with virtually no discussion of the adverse effects of alcohol consumption. Second, the rating system confuses the choices made in movie-going with the very different decisions involved in television viewing.
Television comes into the home an average of seven hours a day.
To monitor your child's viewing you have to be a full-time television watchdog. Third, the rating system is inconsistent. This is because producers rate their own programs. Before they go to school, most of our children are integrated into a television view of the world. Parents, schools, communities or even countries may not share this perspective, since it belongs to a handful of global conglomerates with something to sell.