09-16-2020, 01:15 PM
(09-16-2020, 12:40 PM)Nately120 Wrote: People may be putting the cart before the horse on this one. It's possible Murphy Brown had that character/storyline because more people were accepting such life circumstances rather than people saw it on TV and decided to follow suit.
The media is an easy scapegoat for stuff, too. This county cut a lot of mental health initiatives and safety nets around the same time people were claiming that violent video games were causing everyone to suddenly go crazy, and so on.
I work at a Hospital in a very rural area and saw the results of the closing of both our in/out patient adult and in/out patient child psych units. It was and is very sad.
