{"id":259,"date":"2018-06-18T18:29:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2018-06-18T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:29:45","slug":"child-abuse-prevention-advertisement-banned-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/child-abuse-prevention-advertisement-banned-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Child abuse prevention advertisement banned in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">October 18, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children created a moving and brutal advertisement intended for television as its summer campaign, which features a small boy proclaiming his hopes for a future free from violence while being beaten by a man who is presumably his father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">After drawing some early criticism for being too traumatic for television, the video was ultimately banned in Ireland for an unrelated reason. Namely, the Irish advertising Standards Authority (&#8220;IASA&#8221;) received 13 complaints that the advertisement is sexist because a man is doing the beating rather than a woman. The IASA agreed, deciding that &#8220;in the absence of reliable statistics\u201d on whether men or women are mostly at fault for violence against children, the ad is too sexist to stay on the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Some have speculated that the censorship has drawn more attention to the campaign with the You Tube video at 601,238 views as of this writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ISPCC - Children believe what they are told\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aR4CsbWTSCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2011 The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children created a moving and brutal advertisement intended for television as its summer campaign, which features a small boy proclaiming his hopes for a future free from violence while being beaten by a man who is presumably his father. After drawing some early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}