KIDS CARTOONS ARE LOADED WITH DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

What is this doing to children?

I am reposting the whole article on the violent content of kids cartoons.

Shocking no one who has seen Bambi, a new study has found that characters in cartoons are more likely to die than those in films for adults.

Researchers studied cartoons from 1937 to 2013, and revealed that characters in films like Finding Nemo were more than twice as likely to snuff it.

“Grisly deaths in cartoons were common”, said the report in the British Medical Journal, carried out by University College London and the University of Ottawa. Far from being innocent diversions, kids films are “rife with death and destruction” and “rampant horrors.”

The study looked at the number of deaths in the 45 top grossing cartoon films -including classics like Snow White and Frozen- then compared that with the most successful adult films released in the same year.

Two thirds of cartoons featured the death of a main character, compared to just half of the films for adults. Your chances are even worse if you are the parent of the main character, in which case you're five times more likely to meet a tragic end. [See: Bambi, Finding Nemo, Tarzan, etc etc etc]

“Rather than being innocuous and gentler alternatives to typical horror or drama films, children’s animated films are, in fact, hotbeds of murder and mayhem,” said head researcher Dr Ian Colman.

So this Christmas, switch off The Lion King and watch something less harrowing. Like Saw.

[source : Animated films for children have more death and destruction than films for adults, Radio Times, http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-17/animated-films-for-children-have-more-death-and-destruction-than-films-for-adults, 17th December 2014]

Surely the researchers didn't watch all those war and western films where loads of Nazis and injuns get shot?

Or is the nature of the deaths of greater concern?

Grisly? Rampant horror?