Final Project Milestone Two Department of Health and Human Services Suggesting a Solution.

Final Project Milestone Two Department of Health and Human Services Suggesting a Solution.docx  SOC 213  Advertisement of Junk Food Directed Towards Children  SOC 213  Southern New Hampshire University  The contemporary social problem that I have selected it the advertisement of junk food directed towards children. The relevance of advertisement of junk food directed towards children in today™s society on a local scale is because these advertisements are becoming more relevant in pop up adds, billboards, commercials, etc. These are ways that the advertisement of junk food directed towards children is presenting itself in the United States and my local community. It seems as if every corner I turn, every commercial that comes on the television, and every ad that pops up on my phone is an advertisement for junk food.  The social variables and determinants influencing the development of advertisement of junk food directed towards children on a local level are parents, family, and the child™s environment. Parents are a social variable influencing the development of the advertisement of junk food directed towards children because the parents are the ones that may buy the children  the junk food, they may use the business as a place for rewarding the child, not teaching the child or children about healthy eating, and themselves promoting the junk food to their children.  Family is a social variable influencing the development of the advertisement of junk food directed towards children for some of the same reasons as the parents. As well as, holding a child™s birthday at a bus