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News: Kids Are Starting to Swear at a Younger Age

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How is this possible if we don't let them hear these words on network TV? <grin>

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Tater "the Wise Spud" Scot

Kids Are Starting to Swear at a Younger Age

By Jeremy Taylor

Children are swearing more and are starting to do so at a younger age.

Timothy Jay, a psychology professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts who has been studying swearing for 30 years, found that the average child now starts saying bad words between the ages of 3 and 4 -- earlier than children did a few decades ago. A person's peak period of swearing is during his or her teenage years, but Jay's new data suggests tweens could soon become society's most enthusiastic cursers.

Jay doesn't blame TV and movies, the usual suspects for acquiring such behavior. Instead, he posits that children are swearing more, and at a younger age, because, over the past 30 years, the adults that they mimic are swearing more, too.

Now that folks of all ages are talking dirty, maybe society will finally come to the logical conclusion that swear words are really just words.

Posted from http://www.asylum.com/2010/10/06/timothy-jay-mcla-kids-are-starting-to-swear-at-a-younger-age/