Saturday, October 31, 2015

"Freeform" and TV Stations Breaking Down the Family

Did you know that The Brady Bunch was the first show on TV that showed a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed? Believe it or not, but before then, TV shows would never allow that to be seen. They either had them in separate beds or just stayed away from showing it in a scene.

Have you noticed how these days TV shows are far from the Brady Bunch?
Now of course I'm not suggesting that we switch back to being THAT conservative necessarily. However, it's quite a jump that TV has taken, don't you think? Nowadays TV producers are scared to put anything on TV and I mean anything and quite frankly I think it's effecting us and our views on everything in life.

Don't take me as someone who only advocates for G and PG rated movies and wants to destroy anything else. But it's the fact that these things we see daily on TV, are not wholesome and normal environments. Every family that we see in shows these days is very unhealthy.

Think about all the comedy shows that we enjoy watching. Once we get past the jokes and aspects of it that makes it funny, you start to notice how mean the wives are to their husbands, how dumb the husbands are portrayed, and how dishonest and unloving everyone is in the family. I'll admit, it might make it more entertaining, however that is not true. Most families are not broken down that unhealthily. No TV, not every family has had parents that have committed adultery or a son/daughter that is bisexual or gay. While trying to cater to these more uncommon situations so that some families don't feel left out, they have gotten caught up in it and turned it into our whole world, meanwhile healthy families where there is no betrayal or dishonesty have become the minority.

What happened to traditional families?
TV stations are slowly but surely breaking down the family system.

ABC Family, was once what it was. Then when they began breaking away from what they stood for they turned their slogan into "A new kind of family". It's supposed to be for the family but now it is full of garbage when you think about it. But because they were still under contract with their providers, as long as they were ABC Family, they still had to show The 700 Club, which is a religious program. So they put it late at night when nobody would see it on TV.

Now, if you haven't heard, ABC Family is changing and calling themselves "Freeform".
It seems, to me that this is a step to breaking even farther away from the family, following the spiral downhill that so many other TV stations have taken, eliminating any chance for us to get real and good exposure to how a family is supposed to run.

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