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Nine out of 10 parents swear in front of children

telegraph.co.uk — The average child hears their mother or father utter six expletives a week. The poll of 3,000 11-year-olds show two out five children were using swear words at an earlier age, admitting to using them in their everyday language because they heard their parents use them.

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  • sjbdallas, on 02/14/2009, -5/+269If the goddamn kids would just do what they're ***** told I wouldn't have to swear.
  • inactive, on 02/14/2009, -10/+153What's the problem? They're just words.
  • OneManArmy, on 02/14/2009, -10/+143***** THE RIAA
  • inactive, on 02/14/2009, -7/+120***** PISS ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
  • gfxlonghorn, on 02/14/2009, -0/+85That is one ***** up smiley.
  • inactive, on 02/15/2009, -1/+82That's a lot of seamen.

  • mu0p, on 02/14/2009, -2/+65My parents gave me the mouth of 1000 sailors and i couldn't thank them enough for that.
  • JackSchittt, on 02/14/2009, -2/+55I've never sworn *at* my kids. But at the same time, I don't censor myself either.

    I'd never scream "CLEAN YOUR ***** ROOM" at my kids, for example. But If I'm watching something on TV that was really ***** cool, i have no problems saying "That looked really ***** cool."

    And if my kids swear, as long as it's not directed at me and kept in context, I don't have a problem with it.

  • poidh, on 02/15/2009, -0/+52The "***** me" bit doesn't really work. You make it sound like they have sex with you.
  • bringmeupmusic, on 02/14/2009, -5/+56When my son comes home from a weekend with his father he's full of new words to share. =o/
  • Shirt, on 02/15/2009, -1/+49Seriously. They are only swear words because society makes them swear words. Pretty much all of them have non-swear counterparts that imply the exact same thing as the swear word.

    Crap = *****
    Butt = Ass
    Heck = Hell
    Darn, Dang, Curse = Damn
    Screw, Frick = *****.

    Who cares?
  • gfxlonghorn, on 02/14/2009, -1/+48Maybe that's why they are divorced. He beat her so much that even her smileys have messed up faces now.
  • alexsk8ca, on 02/14/2009, -1/+47Swearing is an important part of the english language, everyone needs to know how to swear.
  • minnymoo, on 02/15/2009, -0/+42Once, I slipped and fell on broken glass.
    My grandmother's reaction was "HOLY ***** *****, AHHHH!"
    I never looked at her the same way again.
  • str3ama, on 02/15/2009, -5/+46What's annoying are those mothers who take their kids to public places, but places mostly intended for adults and expect everyone around to act like a saint solely because there is a kid present. Just because you decided to have a kid doesn't mean that the rest of the world has to change its behaviour to protect your kid.
  • derpaderp, on 02/15/2009, -0/+38Cant think of a gay joke
  • Pother, on 02/14/2009, -6/+42Yeah my divorced neighbor, who had abusive ex-husbands, swears at her 2 boys calling them profanities...
    However she doesn't "physically" abuse them...
    What do think the odds are that these 2 boys will grow up to be just like her ex-husbands and abusive of their wives and kids...?
  • RaptorChrist, on 02/14/2009, -0/+35Mouth of 1000 Sailors? I have that movie!
  • legoalert33, on 02/14/2009, -4/+38I said stop ***** crying!
  • darkheritage, on 02/14/2009, -3/+37Like George Carlin says... how can a word be bad?

    Seriously why as a society do we still care? It has become part of our language and culture... why are we still banning words?
  • Mossman85, on 02/15/2009, -1/+31If a parent spent one day at their kid's school they would be swearing a lot more.
  • TheRealness, on 02/14/2009, -1/+29Who gives a *****.
  • inactive, on 02/15/2009, -1/+28The proudest day in a father's life is when his 3 year old says "I'm on a boat *****"
  • EoNhausen, on 02/15/2009, -9/+33You type too ***** much.
  • inactive, on 02/15/2009, -4/+26*****, *****, *****, ASS, TITTIES, BONER, BITCH, MUFF, PUSSY, *****, BUTTHOLE, BARBRA STREISAND!
  • roxgod666, on 02/15/2009, -5/+26***** this. My ***** parents never ***** around like that in front of ***** me.
  • tidu, on 02/15/2009, -0/+21I fricked your mother last night
  • mrgeekguy, on 02/14/2009, -0/+21My parents never swore in front of me, but luckily my best friends parents swore like Rod Blagojevich.
  • satchthegreat, on 02/15/2009, -0/+21how ironic, "CLEAN YOUR ***** ROOM" is probably the most familiar term from my childhood.
  • gfxlonghorn, on 02/15/2009, -0/+19So your parents who have sex never curse when they have sex with you?
  • cnot3, on 02/15/2009, -0/+19Deplorable violence is alright as long as you don't say any naughty words.
  • shinythings, on 02/14/2009, -3/+18It's like I tell my wife, "Sorry, but I used to be a sailor."
  • str3ama, on 02/15/2009, -2/+16respect for others is not stabbing them, not randomly spitting at people and lining up for service or when waiting to be served.
  • Fawkes, on 02/15/2009, -2/+15A word is only as offensive as you make it... besides, there's nothing more funny than your kid coughing out the most perfect expletive into a well deserved situation before you can.
  • PHJames88, on 02/15/2009, -0/+13Rat *****, bat *****, dirty old *****!
    69 ***** tied in a knot!
    Hooray!
    Lizard *****!
    *****!
  • derpaderp, on 02/15/2009, -6/+19When my son comes home for the weekend its something like this:

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eQFvR-z3Fz0/RzBbAmIx3TI/ ...








    He doesnt get to live with me
  • xireddawnix, on 02/14/2009, -0/+12One for everyday except Sunday. Bitch has to rest at some point.
  • inkswamp, on 02/15/2009, -15/+27Yeah, they're just sounds, right? What's the harm?

    The problem is that those words carry a lot of social baggage and you can't just write that off, even if you personally are not offended by them. Want an example? Go up to a black friend and call him the n-word. I mean, why not? It's just a word, right?

    As someone who was raised around constant swearing, I experienced firsthand how a lot of those words become verbal *and* mental crutches. In my mid-20s I made a conscious decision to stop relying on swear words so much and it was next to impossible to stop using them. You do your kids a disservice if you don't teach them to express themselves without swearing. Leaving those words out of their childhood teaches them how to be mentally and verbally more agile than many of their counterparts who can barely get through a sentence without falling back on some form of "*****."

    And if you don't think that doesn't contribute directly to their success in life, think again. This last summer, I had the experience of helping to interview people for a job in my department and amazingly enough, some of the applicants used swear words during the interview. Just let it happen like it was no big deal. Neither my human resources director nor I were offended, but it sends a very negative message about your attitude, your ability to communicate and your mental capacity.

    So yeah, sure, you're right. They're just sounds. They don't hurt anyone, but that's still not reason enough to justify raising your kids thinking it's a good practice to use those words casually.
  • DamnMan, on 02/15/2009, -4/+16Depends. The words themselves are secondary to tone. When a parent yells at a kid it doesn't matter if they say "*****" or "Brat". The kid knows they have done something wrong in either case. "*****" just sounds more shocking to a 3rd party. But to the kids it may be no different than when our parents yelled at us only with a different vocabulary.

    Who knows, maybe your right. But if its just a case of calling them "little bastards" instead of something else, I doubt it is going to instantly turn them into little wife beaters.
  • mrsteveman1, on 02/15/2009, -2/+13baby jesus is very sensitive
  • zomgflamer, on 02/15/2009, -0/+10Mommy why does daddy call you a whore.
  • ZER0JACK, on 02/14/2009, -1/+10***** THE ***** *****!
  • Chompy, on 02/15/2009, -0/+9Congratulations, you are now officially an old man.
  • fxu1989, on 02/15/2009, -0/+9***** OFF.
  • mushtakrakish, on 02/15/2009, -0/+9hell damn boob!
  • jokerslayer, on 02/14/2009, -1/+9"six expletives a week"

    Okay, I'd like to know where this number is coming from. I can't imagine too many kids or parents actually count.
  • Spamcan, on 02/15/2009, -0/+8The other one out of ten hears it in the media, in public, from other kids at school and so on. Children don't live in a magic bubble, and they're going to hear and see pretty much everything way earlier then they should. The problem isn't the language but how it's treated, when kids hear adults using words like ***** constantly while they get in trouble for it then of course they're going to say it without context and as much as they can. The solution here is to grow the ***** up and stop getting so upset over so called "bad language" because it doesn't exist. It just doesn't ***** exist.
  • bagboyrebel, on 02/15/2009, -0/+8I don't know if they're still there, but there was a couple that lived in the office at one of the dorms at my college (There were bedrooms there for staff) and they had a kid. Apparently there was an expectation that the kid wouldn't hear any swearing...on a college campus...
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