A lot of people believe that television has a harmful effect on children. A few years ago, the same criticisms were made of the cinema. But despite child psychologists have spent a (1) ______ great deal of time studying this problem, there is not many (2) ______ evidence that television brings up juvenile delinquency. (3) ______ Few people in the modern world share the views of parents a hundred years ago. In those days, writers for children carefully avoided any reference on sex in their books but had (4) ______ no inhibitions abut including scenes of violence. These days children are often brought up to think freely about sex but violence is discouraged. Nevertheless, television companies receive a large amount of letters every week (5) ______ complaining about programs with adult themes being shown at times which a few young children may be awake. Strangely (6) ______ enough, the parents who complain about these programs see no harm in cartoon films for children in which the villain, usually either an animal or a monster, but in some cases a human being, suffers one cruel punishment after the other. (7) ______ The fact is that, which every parent knows, different (8) ______ things frighten different children. One child can read a ghost story without having bad dreams while another can not bear to have the book in his bedroom. In the same way, there is little consistency about the things that terrify adults. Almost everyone has a irrational private fear but while some of us (9) ______ can not stand the sight of spiders, for example, others are frightened from snakes or rats. (10) ______