Parents Talk: How to Deal With R-Rated Movies and Parental Advisory

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Today's topic: Kids and R-rated movies

It's becoming harder and harder for parents to limit what their kids watch. Not only is TV getting more and more edgy, but R-rated movies and explicit music is easier than ever to download off iTunes or rent at a Redbox.

Just a few weeks ago, Bolingbrook Patch wrote a story about how the cannot ethically prohibit your youngsters from .

From USA Today:

Researchers know what your tween saw last summer: savage beatings, severed heads, murder, rape and torture.

In a study released (in 2008) in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from Dartmouth Medical School estimate more than 2.5 million children ages 10 to 14 watch the typical violent, R-rated movie.

So we ask you, the parents: Do you let your kids watch R-rated movies before they are of legal age? And what about music that contains profanity or sexually explicit lyrics?

Share your thoughts in the comment section below!

Have a question for Parents Talk? Send them to Editor Brian Feldt at brianf@patch.com and we'll put those questions up for discussion in the coming weeks.