Effects of advertising directed at children

These topics describe in general the effects of advertising and specifically the impact of advertising food, clothes and toys. The topics include some facts and figures about the amount of advertising shown on commercial television and the standards that regulate the media in this area.

• Advertising - an overview
• Food advertising
  
  

• Through thick or thin
• Toy advertising
• Standards in relation to advertising
• Effect of advertising on children's body image
  
  

• Too sexy, too soon: the sexualisation of children in the media
• Strategies for parents around advertising
• Advertising: true or false
• Readings & research