Children's cartoons depict death more often than films for adults: study

As long as people don't mess with the formulas that work. As you can see with "Snow White", society used to have a backbone and knew that a little trauma was instrumental in introducing kids to the real world.

They should show data for last 20 years or so, so we could see how silly their study is.

Maybe they could do a study based on how many times Tom was blown up, flattened, turned into an item of furniture, shredded, minced, etc.... by Jerry. ^_^

It is true that onscreen murder and deaths could have a negative and long lasting effects on young children likely to be frightened by unrealistic and even impossible events onscreen. So parents might consider watching such visual media including films and cartoons alongside their children in the event that the children need emotional support after witnessing the inevitable horrors that will unfold. However it s possible that exposure to death could have some positive impact on children's adjustment and understanding of death, if treated appropriately. Visual media and moves etc. that model appropriate grief response could help children to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of death or films depicting death in a more refined way could provide a valuable resource for initiating discussions about death between children and adults.

It is true that onscreen murder and deaths could have a negative and long lasting effects on young children likely to be frightened by unrealistic and even impossible events onscreen. So parents might consider watching such visual media including films and cartoons alongside their children in the event that the children need emotional support after witnessing the inevitable horrors that will unfold.

Children are actually very resilient to death in fiction - it is adults who come and sanitize it for them, unnecessarily. Take the classic fairy tale that warns children about the dangers of talking to strangers, Little Red Riding Hood and how its ending has changed over the years:

1) The wolf eats the girl. The end. 2) The wolf eats the girl. The woodman cuts the girl out, still alive, and kills the wolf. The end. 3) The wolf eats the girl. The woodman cuts the girl and the granny out, and replaces them with stones and stitches the wolf back up again to teach him a lesson (a version I have only come across in Japan).

As the story has been sanitized by adults, it loses it true meaning. I doubt that the original version traumatized the children who listened to it over hundreds of years in Europe.

Do not think of touching our beloved popular culture, silly London people.