Think of the Children: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Dragon's Lair]] 2: Time Warp'', the opening movie tells you to "do it for the children".

* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'' after having a [[Morality Chip]] installed, normally [[Robotic Psychopath]] HK-47 will say this entirely without irony.

{{quote|"We must always think of the children. The littlest ones always suffer in war."}}

* [[Parodied Trope]] twice during the announcer banter in ''[[Ratchet: Deadlocked]]''.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* JewWario cries "won't somebody think of the children?!" to get [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and [[The Cinema Snob]] to stop throwing [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]] at each other in ''[[Kickassia]]''. Everyone gives him a strange look.

{{quote|<jaffa> think of the children!

<bobf> oh gimme a break, I've spent *hours* today thinking of the children, [[A Date with Rosie Palms|my wrist is too sore to do it any longer]] }}

** In the 1980s, Mothers Against Drunk Driving did a successful "think of the children" push against drunk driving and against drinking and purchasing alcohol by people under 21. It was so successful that it rarely comes up anymore: The mandated-for-highway-funding bans on drinking under 21 are now over 21 years old.

** Many cities have passed laws to ban smoking in public places and businesses. Second-hand smoke was a spearhead in that campaign, and children breathing it were often cited in the early arguments.

** Fast food companies and other "junk food" distributors have been facing increasing criticism for advertising products toward children. Some groups and individuals advocate banning "Happy Meals" and similar food combos to "protect the children." True, parents are usually the ones buying that food; but fast food places ''will'' allow children to buy food if they can pay for it, and McDonalds has provided food for school breakfasts. Vending machines on school grounds are special targets of frustration, since children ''choose'' to buy junk food and soda from them.

* Averted by the [https://prostasia.org/ Prostasia Foundation], which states that “Before you can think of the children, you have to be prepared to think.”

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