Nursery rhymes more violent than TV

Nursery rhymes more violent than TV

LONDON (Reuters) - Children's nursery rhymes contain 10 times more violence than television shows broadcast before the 9 p.m. "watershed" after which more adult content can be shown, research has said.

"You would hear about 10 times more violence if you listened to an hour of nursery rhymes than if you watched television for an hour before 9 o'clock on an average day," said Dr Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital in London.

With all the violence and destruction shown on the news how can nursery rhymes contain 10 times more violence than that?