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Should children under 13 have a separate seating in airplanes to prevent them from seeing violent movie images?

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Yes
28% 33 votes Total: 120 votes
No
72% 87 votes
  • 1 of 4

    by Jon Barnard

    Absolutely. I believe it's the parents' responsibility to review and ensure that what their child's brain does with any particular input(visual, auditory, violent, inane) is ac...read more

  • 2 of 4

    by Aeryk Thomas

    Children under 13 should have their own separate seating in airplanes, but my reasoning has nothing to do with violent movie images. Has anyone ever been peacefully enjoying the...read more

  • 3 of 4

    by Timothy D Heard

    When movies containing violence and adult content are being shown during an air-flight, precautions should definitely be considered in an attempt to ensure that they are not ava...read more

  • 4 of 4

    by Ronald Gibson

    Okay let's start right off by reminding my readers that children under thirteen are not allowed to see certain types of violent movies in theaters. To take those same children a...read more

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  • 1 of 18

    by Dorothy Jo Bourbeau

    This topic brings up many questions, not to mention potential problems, perhaps even law suits. The last time I was on a plane the movie could be viewed from every seat. So,...read more

  • 2 of 18

    by Eiregirl

    Let me see if I understand this debate correctly. I am assuming that the children in question will have made it through the two hour security line, entertained themselves throu...read more

  • 3 of 18

    by Arthur Gibson

    Sure, let's put every child 13 and under in the tail end of the plane to keep them from seeing violent movie images. Remember if you do this, you're now putting every child bet...read more

  • 4 of 18

    by Brandi R Woltman

    This question is just beyond stupid. What are these children going too prevented from seeing. Are young ladies going to prevented from seeing breasts, oh wait they will eventual...read more

  • 5 of 18

    by B. L. Babb

    Airlines today have many issues they face in their day-to-day battle to get flights off the ground on time, get passenger luggage to the proper destination, and cover the rising...read more

  • 6 of 18

    by Melissa Crossley

    Parents come on now, just for once stop with the overbearing, overprotective antics please! My twelve year old wanted to go see Halloween and because he was not 18 he could not ...read more

  • by Elaine Grant

    No, I think it's absurd to have separate seating for children under 13 on airplanes so their parents can watch violent movies. The people who proposed this idea must be clueles...read more

  • 8 of 18

    by Hunter Barnes

    I believe that children under the age of 13 shouldn't have separate seating in airplanes to prevent them from seeing violent movie images. If parents believed that their child s...read more

  • 9 of 18

    by Tommy Vaughan

    So the topic is whether children under the age of 13 should be seated separately in airplanes to prevent them from seeing violent movie images. This is a question so asinine th...read more

  • 10 of 18

    by Emilia Gravenhurst

    Let me understand this? Do the parents sit at one end of the airplane and the children sit at the other end? Who will look after their needs? Or will the parents have to sit ...read more

  • 11 of 18

    by Thaxton Lewis

    This is a very silly idea and shows the lengths to which people, really adults nowadays, are so afraid of confronting anything that has to do with real life that someone might s...read more

  • 12 of 18

    by Ravi Nayar

    This debate's title I suppose emanates from the reasoning that society can and should regulate everything. So the European Union bureaucrats sitting in Brussels have prepared a ...read more

  • 13 of 18

    by Jacqueline A. Johnson

    No child should ever be separated from a parent on a flight for any reason. I once was separated from my 13 year old on a flight from New York to Montego Bay, Jamaica. At fi...read more

  • 14 of 18

    by Mariel Kirschen

    People act like all children are angels and have never seen some of the terrible things in the world. Given, some kids are that sheltered that they have never seen a disturbing...read more

  • 15 of 18

    by Carolyn Tytler

    Children under 13 should not be exposed to violent movie images, either while traveling by air or at any other time. Often, this presents a problem for parents flying with young...read more

  • 16 of 18

    by zackrspv

    Control really is the name of the game when it comes to taking children on trips. Parents MUST control their children to prevent disruption to the normal airline activities. S...read more

  • 17 of 18

    by Samuel Chriske

    For one most parents don't want to be separated from their children. Two, putting a bunch of children of, or under the age of 13,together in a small compartment spells disaster....read more

  • 18 of 18

    by Kyle Chalmers

    Children should not have separate seats, that will just encourage a playpen on a plane. With all the concern over terrorism, does it seem wise to have all of our children separ...read more

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