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Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood
Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. We support the rights of children to grow up and the rights of parents to raise them without being undermined by rampant commercialism. CCFC is headquartered at the NonProfit Center in Boston.
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Carls Jr. Tries to Go After the Young, and Hungry, Skateboarding Fan
Where are all the young men? That has been the cry of fast-food chains in the last few years, as teenage boys have turned away from television and radio to nontraditional media..
Campaigns For Challenging Times Put Children and Mothers First
There is a saying among marketers that in tough times, whatever merchandise consumers are still buying is purchased in this order: first, for the children; then for mom; next, for the pets; and finally, for dad.
Money-Hungry Schools Getting Down to Business
Ads on Pr. William Web Sites Fuel Debate Over New Commercial Endeavors.
FTC Could Set Standards for Food Marketing Aimed at Teens
Omnibus Appropriations Bill Calls for Study, Broadens Scope.
Child Activists Slam Sprout
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Sprout trade barbs over program block.
Advocates Say Program Keeps Kids Awake
Some experts say a three-hour bedtime TV show for preschoolers does more to keep kids awake than ease them into sleep.
Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones
The millions of people who use their cellphones daily to play games, download applications and browse the Web may not realize that they have an unseen companion: advertisers that can track their interests, their habits and even their location.
Advocates ask PBS Sprout to Put The Good Night Show to Bed
Citing evidence that television viewing before bed undermines healthy sleep habits, advocates for children are urging PBS KIDS Sprout to stop packaging its evening programming as The Good Night Show.
Parents Send Father's Day Appeal to President Obama: Protect Children from Corporate Marketers
Today, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood sent a Father's Day appeal to President Obama, signed by over twenty five hundred parents, petitioning him to launch a systematic review of the regulations on marketing to children to determine if they offer sufficient protection for twenty-first century families.
Brazilian Prosecutor Wants to Ban Fast-Food Toys
Charging that toys sold with meals in fast-food outlets can lead children to develop bad eating habits, a Brazilian prosecutor on Monday asked a judge to ban such sales nationally at chains including McDonald's and Burger King.
The Hostile Takeover of Childhood
Children are in greater physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual danger now than at any other time during the life of this nationand the threat is coming from a multi-billion dollar industry that is using the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform children into profitable consumers from cradle to grave.
Tobacco Regulation Is Expected to Face a Free-Speech Challenge
The marketing and advertising restrictions in the tobacco law that Congress passed last week are likely to be challenged in court on free-speech grounds. But supporters of the legislation say they drafted the law carefully to comply with the First Amendment.
Mattels Barbie Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Wins Worst Toy of the Year;CCFC Honors Doll with Inaugural TOADY Award
In an online vote by more than 6,000 CCFC members, Barbie handily beat four other nominees.
Advertising On School Buses? Not Buying It
Im not going to throw state Rep. Al Gemma under the bus. But I would like to put the brakes on his proposal to allow advertising on school buses.
Scholastic Accused of Misusing Book Clubs
Scholastic Inc., the childrens publisher of favorites like the Harry Potter, Goosebumps and Clifford series, may be best known for its books, but a consumer watchdog group accuses the company of using its classroom book clubs to push video games, jewelry kits and toy cars.
Scholastic Corp. Criticized For Marketing Toys, Video Games in School-based Book Clubs
Scholastic Corp., the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, has come under criticism from a childrens advocacy group for using its vast, venerable network of school-based book clubs to market toys and other non-educational items ranging from video games to lip gloss.
CCFC to Scholstic: Put the Book Back in "Book Club"
A review by CCFC of Scholastics elementary and middle school book clubs flyers found that one-third of the items for sale are either not books or are books packaged with other items such as jewelry, toys or lip gloss.
It's Cooler Than Ever To Be A Tween, But Is Childhood Lost?
The prepubescent children of days gone by have given way to a cooler kid the tween who aspires to teenhood but is not quite there yet.
Study Links TV and Depression
The amount of time teenagers watch television increases their risk of becoming depressed as adults, researchers find.
Report Slams Wish Lists for Toys on Children's Websites
Websites should not offer children e-wish lists, which give children the chance to make a wish list of toys which can be emailed to their parents, because most familes can't afford the expensive gifts, according to a new report.
