Childhood is disappearing

• • Neil Postman (1994) argues that childhood is disappearing. He argues that children today grow up very quickly. A main driver for this television (and more recently the internet): children can access adult knowledge and topics , and problems in the world, without adult levels of literacy. Children are sexualised in the media.
• • postman argues that as well as an adult indication of children, there is a codification of adults: a blurring. Increasingly children and adults watch the same films, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes and share the same interests