#graphic-violence

#graphic-violence

How you handle the conversation is less about age and more about what you know of your child and how likely they are to be impacted by the events, Deborah Gilboa, a family doctor and resilience expert, tells TODAY.com. Of course, these discussions depend on whether or not parents know for certain that their child has been exposed to graphic content.

Nothing about Francis Lawrence's take-no-prisoners adaptation of Richard Bachman's (aka Stephen King) staggering novel offers one shard of hope for any of us to wrap our bloodied fingers around. Nor should it, given the hellish America landscape it envisions, an undefined time where a rotting-to-its-core nation goads 50 male teens into a grueling contest that demands participants walk at a 3-mile-an-our pace or get a bullet through the head delivered by The Major (Mark Hamill) or his military goons.