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...study, published in the July 13 issue of the journal “Medscape General Medicine,” found that a decade of “ratings creep” has made it more difficult for parents to know if a film contains graphic content they wouldn’t want their children...
...MPAA appears to tolerate increasingly more extreme content in any given age-based rating category over time,” the study said. “Movies with the same rating can differ significantly in the amount and type of potentially objectionable content. Age-based ratings alone do not provide good information about the depiction of violence, sex, profanity and other content...
Kimberly Thompson, associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at HSPH and co-author of the study, said that while the MPAA rating “does provide some insight into the film content,” parents “need to be calibrated with what’s in films today...
Thompson and former HSPH researcher Fumie Yokota compared MPAA ratings and rating reasons for 1,906 films released between Jan. 1, 1992 and Dec. 31, 2003 with information about movie content from two independent resources, Kids-in-Mind and Screen...
...think a lot of that has to do with the introduction of the PG-13 rating [in 1984] and now a lot of movies that used to get an R rating get PG-13,” he said. “Ratings are incredibly skewed toward sexual content and a lot less stringent toward violent content, which I don’t agree with...