Sorry about the blank message! Being new to this forum, I simply clicked on the send button too soon.
It can be quite difficult to monitor your children's tv viewing at times. While you may do quite well at monitoring it at home, children visiting at friends' houses may not be monitored that closely by their parents.
We found out something quite amazing when raising our four children. They tended to do censorship on their own. They did not care for the sex-filled shows and turned them off. They saw some of it on friends' tvs and were disgusted by it. They preferred the children's programming they saw on our tv.
All four of our children grew to be responsible, caring adults. With the exception of our youngest son, all had children of their own and are responsible parents too. So we have been very fortunate. Even after losing our youngest daughter, Teresa, in the house fire in 1999, her daughter, Regan, is being raised by her father and is growing up to be a lovely young lady. She loves Mary Kate and Ashley, especially the younger movies, and cartoons. She loves Barbie dolls. And we monitor what she watches on tv here when she visits.
You can write to producers of shows, networks, and advertisers. You can boycott advertisers, but this is not effective unless you write a letter to the company telling them why you are boycotting. Otherwise, they simply increase the advertising.