nursery rhymes cause violent behaviour?

"CHILDREN'S nursery rhymes contained 10 times more violence than British TV programmes shown before 9pm, after which more adult content could be shown, a research revealed recently. 'You would hear about 10 times more violence if you listened to an hour of nursery rhymes than if you watched television for an hour before 9pm on an average day,' said Dr Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital in London.

He and his colleagues compared instances of violence in 25 popular nursery rhymes such as Jack And Jill and Simple Simon, and in television programmes on Britain's main channels over a twoweek period. Published in The Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fox admitted the approach was tonguein- cheek but said it showed that an increase in violence in children could not be blamed simply on watching too much television. "