The access to culture, information and entertainment and the prevention measures provided in the statute of the child and adolescent

Abstract

This paper discusses the prevention measures contemplated by the Law n. 8.069/90 – Statute of the child and adolescent – and provided in a pioneer way in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989 and the action of the state regulating the access of these individuals to culture, information and entertainment produced by the media. It compares benefits and risks of broadcasting information and programs which may be unsuitable to this age, a concern that becomes more serious regarding the informational society, since in the past the concern was in the excessive exposition to television, nowadays these digital natives have  access to a series of diverse materials, many of them inadequate to their age and harmful to their complete development, which raises new inquiries to the full protection system.