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Rome, Italy, Dec 16, 2012 \/ 05:16 pm (CNA<\/a>).- Family and Media is celebrating its seventh year of studying\u00a0the impact of the media on the family and offering advice to parents on how to form the Christian character of their children.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe catalyst for its starting was John Paul II\u2019s message \u2018The Media and the Family: a Risk and a Richness,\u2019 delivered in 2004,\u201d Family and Media's project coordinator Norberto Gaitano told CNA Dec. 14.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cSome scholars from different universities already had an interest and a preoccupation, for the media effects on family. At that point, some of us thought: we have to do something in this field to help families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tGaitano is a professor of communications and public opinion at the Pontifical University Santa Croce, and the organization includes communications professors from universities in Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, and Chile.<\/p>\n

\tIn his words, \u201cwe don't pay too much attention to the influence media is having on our lifestyles,\u201d and\u00a0so he and his fellow teachers made this a focus of\u00a0Family and Media.<\/p>\n

\tThe group\u00a0assists other family associations in developing media education tools\u00a0for parents and\u00a0helps promote a pro-family agenda in the media, rather than merely being reactive to media.<\/p>\n

\tIt also\u00a0assists family organizations with improving their own communication outreach, acts as a\u00a0think tank,\u00a0and is interdisciplinary, including\u00a0advisers in the fields of philosophy and theology, Gaitano explained.<\/p>\n

\tAt the practical leve, he\u00a0said it is important that parents be aware of their childrens' use of media and social networks.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cYoung people are searching to affirm their identity, to discover a world beyond the family, and to establish relationships that are different from their filial and fraternal ones \u2026 new technologies open a window to such new relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSince children are using these technologies, but have not had time to develop prudence, Gaitano said it is important that parents supply this virtue and help their children to develop it.<\/p>\n

\tWe must begin with children and education \u2013 \u201cthrough caring for children,\u201d said Gaitano.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe want to offer our little contribution to help rebuild the symbolic and social value of the family. Communications is a key of doing this. This field leads you to think strategically and not just tactically. Isolated and temporary, casual actions aren\u2019t enough to win the battle. A long-term cultural design is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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