Do you think the Censors should NOT allow tender kissing scenes on TV?

Philippines
October 9, 2008 2:26am CST
As a parent, we are doing our best to protect our children from danger and bad influences. Being one and a Filipino, I noticed some TV drama/romantic shows have some tender kissing scenes in which there was none before. These kind of shows are getting more popular since the movie industry is declining. However, I do not allow my kids (even my 12-year old daughter) to watch them because the kissing scenes are getting normal. Now here is my question, should the Censors advise the producers to remove them? Or is it OK for your children to watch it since they are still kids? Although this question seems to be for parents only, everyone is invited to join as long as the comments are friendly and valuable. Thanks!
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27 responses
@belk89 (1103)
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
I think the best thing to do is not to allow your kids to watch programs that contains scenes that are not suitable for children. That is the reason why there is parental guidance. The best thing to do is during times when your going to watch a tv program let them do there assignment or let them do something that is interesting instead of letting them watch program that has kissing scenes. Usually kids see this on soap opera and i personally believe that this kind of program should only be watch by adults and not by kids. They should have a tv program that is good for kids.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
9 Oct 08
WEll I think that tender kissing scenes are ok that shows kids that side of love that should be. Not the kind of kissing and scenes where they start trearing each others cloths off. GO back and watch some old black and white movies they had tender kissing scenes in them!
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
9 Oct 08
Guess thats what I meant when the kiss turns into a hhot hot kiss and they start with takeing the clothes off. have to watch what we watch around here and if it is R rated we dont watch!
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
I saw some of the non-colored films and I think the impact is very much lighter than today. Maybe the term "tender" is subjective, but I think the especially Tagalog shows) are getting worst everyday....
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
9 Oct 08
I think censorship of what our children watch on tv should be left to the parents. What bothers one family or child may not bother another, let the parents decide.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
9 Oct 08
Being a muslim country our government has long censored movies which have kissing scenes . For adults it is ok but children might take it as normal and could advance into imitating it. This is something that the movie industry should try to discourage in their movies. But again it lost the thrill especially in love stories. It should look more real with this romantic actions in them.
• United States
9 Oct 08
I'm in the US so I have no idea how the Filipino society works, but I think it's a bit silly to remove the scenes from television. Going out to a mall or any area where there are people exposes us to people practically 'doing the dirty deed' in public, so kissing is not a big deal for us. Of course, it's entirely up to you to shelter your daughter from influences you deem to be inappropriate, and I'd like to thank you for taking such an active role in your daughter's viewing habits. Here, people would much rather let their kids watch whatever the child chooses and then blame the television stations for what their kids 'learn'.
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
No offense, but I think Filipinos (especially parents) are still a bit conservative especially when kissing in public. But I appreciate you that you noticed my deep concern with my daughter. She is my only angel so I am very watchful to her.
@jazzy007 (10)
• India
9 Oct 08
i think the censors should be abolished. they are interfering with free will. nobody on earth should decide what is good to see and what is not good to watch for others. i don lik my movies being censored. not only does it deprive me of pleasure, it also ruins the creativity and hardwork of the inventor or director of the movie.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
1 Nov 08
Censorship is not rigid in our country.And I don't see any reason why can't they allow the kissing scenes.They should never allow the boring things first.
@moondancer (7433)
• United States
13 Oct 08
Just as it was years ago, letting us think and know what was about to happen next was enough. They would deflect the screen to another scene or something else, with us knowing what was about to transpire with the two that was just on the screen. Maybe they were about to kiss or something else. They didn't have to show it for us to know what was happening. I liked it that way.
@tess1960 (2385)
• United States
10 Oct 08
I do not think censorship should be allowed. You have the choice to watch or not just the as the stations have the choice to air it or not, that is why there are so many channels. On any given day your children will see tender kissing scenes out the school window or the car window or the doctors office window or the grocery store window, and on and on. Teach them your morals, what you believe is and isn't appropriate and that if they see something that you've taught them is not appropriate to look away. We cannot depend on censorship to teach our children our beliefs and morals just as we cannot depend on censorship to give us the will to look away. We must take control of our own actions and leave others free to control theirs. If it harms none do as you will. This is another reason I was glad to see that television shows and entire channels can now be blocked. This is our own form of censorship within our home and this is our right. You are right to monitor what your children watch on television and I applaud you for that.
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
9 Oct 08
Kissing is nothing wrong.. Unless u or your wife dun kiss the kids?? Even so, parents can tell them it's ok for them to kiss, as they are your kids.. But what happens if they were to see u and your wife kissing one day?? Or what if they happen to see someone kissing in public?? So the more u try to hide from them, the more curious they will be, and they will be more eager to try.. PLus, kissing is just a way of showing love to each other, and there's nothing wrong with it ^_^
@ayenacsi (910)
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
well my 3 year old son just smiles and says that they are in love and I think that's cute... i think it's good that they associate it with love. Anyways, these shows on prime time are PG so there is always the parents guidance. Parents can somehow say that kissing is good, an expression of love.
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@quinnkl (1667)
• United States
11 Oct 08
I am not a fan of any type of censorship for television, music, etc. I am, however, a parent and I do not let my child watch certain things that I feel inappropriate for his age, etc. In my opinion, if you don't approve, don't watch it. Use parental controls on tv, etc. My sister used to cover her kids' eyes when something she didn't want them to watch came on a show they were watching (years ago). :-) Whatever works! I think it is up to each of us as parents to decide what our kids should and can be exposed to. Not all of us will agree on what is right and wrong. But, I don't believe my opinion should be imposed on everyone, any more than I think everyone else's should be imposed on me or my family.
@jdyrj777 (6530)
• United States
12 Oct 08
All tv have off and on knobs. Most tvs now have parental controls too. The whole movie industy can not be custom fit just because there are children in the world who may see people kissing or cussing. Do they not see their parents kissing or cussing? Or is everyone out there like Ward and June Cleaver?
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
For me as parent with two sons, I think tender kissing should be removed in tv or don't allow those tv shows in primetime coz many children are awake at that time. If they don't want to removed maybe they should blurred that specific for censor purposes.
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
I think I like your suggestion. Although they are being shown at night, most of them are still in primetime. I am also disturbed on how they promote it during day time. They are putting so much focus on the "romance" thing.
@liquorcs (194)
• Malaysia
5 Nov 08
For me, the scenes should be removed. This is bad for the future of the children. Children tend to imitate things they saw. They don't know actually what they're doing. And if they always watch such scenes between the age of 7-14, they'll think that's OK for them to do such things and there are high possibility it will be their habits. But, maybe if parents can teach their children about what's good and what's bad well (which is hard and though), there will we no problems.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
10 Oct 08
You are a good parent to not allow your daughter to watch these kind of scenes..My husband has no problem with it, so I have to watch what he watches around my 6 y/o and many times things get past me..I monitor what my child watches, but hard when there is also a 19 y/o and a father that doesn't see it as something bad..
• United States
10 Oct 08
I live in the US and I have to protect what my kids see too. I usually just stay with a couple of channels that I know I don't have to have to worry about but when they flip through they might see something that needs to be explained or dismissed. I'm not going to let them figure out what life is by television, it will mom and I who tell them about it.
@mayrah (1144)
• United States
10 Oct 08
It would be better if they would remove that, but I don't think they can. I have heard from my friends that they also bothered by such incidence that their little child may have been influence by what they saw in television, so just like you she doesn't let her kids to watch those, she just turn the channel on program for kids such as cartoons and the like.
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
10 Oct 08
I don't think children should be exposed things beyond their age level. Most teens (I have a teen age daughter too) are starting to question and explore the roles they will have when they reach adulthood. Kissing on tv isn't too bad, but then again, it depends on how suggestive it is. It's a wonderful time to discuss relationships with your children, as well as morals, self respect, etc. You know they will be exposed to this type of thing outside of the home, and you want them to be able to make the correct decisions. Good luck...it's an exiting time to watch as our kids grow up, and more than a little scary too.
• India
10 Oct 08
Well personally i think that the main problem is with TV channels as they are using wrong language and bad scenes very frequently.You are very much correct that kissing scenes are getting normal in movies. you can stop your children to watch movies but you cant stop them to watch TV channels so main problem resides with them.So I would say that these sorts of adult things should be banned on TV channels first.And along with that parents should take care of one thing that their children should watch knowledge channels like Discovery,Animal Planet,News channels etc instead of watching other channels
• India
10 Oct 08
it is better to remove those kind of scenes.otherwise children may get spoiled