Study Reveals Shocking Truth About Children’s Programming on Netflix
A new study from Concerned Women for America shows that over 41% of children’s shows on Netflix contain LGBT content.
The comprehensive analysis shows how the streaming giant is pushing adult themes on young viewers. The study found that while less than 10% of the overall population identifies as LGBT, 41% of G-rated series and 41% of TV-Y7-rated series on Netflix include LGBT characters, themes, or messaging. Even shows rated TV-Y for the youngest children contained pro-LGBT content 21% of the time.
The study also revealed a troubling pattern of “updating” popular children’s shows like “The Baby-Sitter’s Club,” and “She-Ra” with LGBT characters in reboots and later seasons.
All of this underscores why parents must pay attention to what their children see online and on television. Netflix can push harmful material and pro-LGBT content to children at home — often without parents realizing it. If consumers demand more appropriate entertainment, Netflix and other companies might be willing to deliver it.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
Group Asks Netflix to Cancel “13 Reasons Why”
One Million Moms (1MM) released a statement today calling on Netflix to remove the show “13 Reasons Why” from its streaming service.
The controversial television series has drawn flak for its depictions of teens suicide and violence.
Back in 2017, John Stonestreet with the Colson Center for Christian Worldview wrote,
If you’re a parent, chances are you’ve heard about the series [“13 Reasons Why”]. If you’re a parent in a place like Colorado Springs, where literally dozens of teenagers have committed suicide in recent years, you’re probably asking yourself whether the show will only make a bad situation worse.
Unfortunately, two years later, those concerns appear to be valid.
Last May a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology found monthly suicides among youths ages 10 – 17 increased by nearly one-third following the release of “13 Reasons Why.”
Our friends at American Family Association have written about 14-year-old Anna Bright, who took her own life after binge watching “13 Reasons Why.”
Initially, when people criticized the show’s graphic depiction of suicide and violence, Netflix was publicly defiant, telling shareholders, “It [13 Reasons Why] is controversial. But nobody has to watch it.”
Recently, however, Netflix opted to delete the graphic suicide scene from Season 1 of the series.
Now One Million Moms is calling on Netflix to remove the show entirely from its platform, saying,
Netflix is set to release Season 3 of 13 Reasons Why this Friday, August 23. Netflix has also confirmed a fourth and final season that is already in production.
More than two years after the 2017 debut of 13 Reasons Why, Netflix finally responded to concerns about the negative impact of the controversial suicide-themed series. Netflix deleted Season 1’s three-minute graphic teen suicide scene. But that was after releasing a second season about suicide, rape, sexual assault, and mental illness, and now a third season with a teen homicide as the focus of the show’s darkness, violence, and perversion.
Although 1MM acknowledges the removal of Season 1’s suicide scene and applauds that there is an end in sight for the series, 1MM is not giving in or giving up. 1MM and our parent ministry, American Family Association, are pressing on, stronger now more than ever. Together, we are putting the maximum pressure on Netflix to pull all seasons of this dangerous series from its streaming service.
The whole series is a dark and depressing primer for impressionable young people, inviting them to enter a realm of perversion, hatred, and violence.
Parents can learn more and sign a petition calling on Netflix to pull “13 Reasons Why” here.
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