# What would be the effect of raising a child in an environment with nothing "meant for children?"

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**Created:** [March 27, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-the-effect-of-raising-a-child-in-an-environment-with-nothing-meant-for-children/961781 "2022-03-27T06:02:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-the-effect-of-raising-a-child-in-an-environment-with-nothing-meant-for-children/961781/21 "2022-03-27T20:41:10Z")

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Books, yes, by all means. If you’d written “children’s books” I wouldn’t have argued with you. But “children’s media” encompasses a huge amount of material outside of books. That’s where the money is, and that’s where most of the attention is. The attention the media companies buy with huge PR and advertising expenditures. The children lap it up, and their hapless parents seem to have little choice but to follow along.

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