When my husband was quite young he'd spend the night at a friend's house. This friend's mom would wake them in the middle of the night to watch horror movies that would come on HBO. These are likely shows that my mother and father in law would not have been okay with their young son watching.
This begs an interesting question: what happens when your family rules about media conflict with the rules in other places where your children spend time? Do you expect your children to follow your media rules even when out of the house? If so, how to you enforce that? What happens as your children get older and spend more and more time with their peers? It's also worth noting that today's infinitely portable media make this even more challenging.
Here's an interesting article on this:
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