When Parents Bring Kids to Inappropriate Movies

Taking a child to ANY movie that is not designated for children is not only inappropriate but exceptionally rude in general. There is a reason there is a rating system in the movie industry. Children lack the ability to process adult concepts of entertainment. They have no control over their emotions and have no idea how to deal with this kind of imagery. There isn't even a common consensus among the public deeming at what age children understand the difference between fiction and reality.

Sure, every parent has the "right" to let their kids watch whatever they want to let them watch. What every parent shouldn't have is the right to do it in public. If you want your two year old to watch graphic scenes of people ripping out other people's eyeballs and rubbing their genitalia with them, do it at home. Spare us all your low standard of parental guidance. Have you ever tried to sit through a movie with kids in the audience, crying, screaming, incessantly talking and opening candy wrappers, fighting with the other kids over popcorn and drinks, listening to their parents repeatedly tell them to be quiet and getting louder and louder with the shhhh sound? It's annoying and inconsiderate. Who wants to pay 10 dollars a pop plus the 20 dollars for snacks to listen to kids cry instead of enjoying a movie. These people should come prepared to give every single person in the audience who couldn't hear the movie because of their sniveling, whining kids a full refund, including the 3.50 for the large coke.

Now some people might think I am completely insensitive to people with children. Wrong, I am the mother of nine. This is why I don't attend movies at a movie theatre with my children unless it is a KIDS movie. People with kids who go to a kids movie expect a certain amount of noise in the audience. I would like to think anyone with children would have a little more discression than to expose their young children to excessive violence, inappropriate language and sexually explicit scenes, but then again, have you seen TV lately?

You might say, well there are kids witnessing these atrocities in real life everyday across the globe. That's probably true, but these kids are in a WAR ZONE. Hello, even seasoned soldiers have a hard time dealing with these kinds of images. Can anyone say PTSD? In my opinion, anyone who takes a child to the movie theatre to see an adult movie ought to be investigated for child abuse. If they will inflict this type of thing on their child in public, what can they possibly be doing in their own homes? The reason adult's like me go to movies at a theatre is to get AWAY from their kids and enjoy some time with their spouse or other adult friends. Couples go to movies to enjoy being a couple, snuggling through a horror movie or tear jerking love story is what couples do.

Not only is taking children to an adult movie annoying to the other people in the audience, but it causes the other adults in the audience to be uncomfortable even embarrassed. Who wants to be the one who lets a dirty word slip out during a particularly tense scene in a movie and know that the 4 year old sitting in the next row might hear you and possibly repeat it? An adult movie is exactly that, it's ADULT entertainment. You wouldn't take your kid to a strip club would you? Of course not, its ILLEGAL, and taking kids to adult films, in my opinion, should be too.