Dr. Timothy Jay, author of Cursing in America and Why We Curse, has been studying swearing since the seventies. The following is an excerpt from an article by Melanie B. Glover of McClatchy Newpapers:
Cussing is a natural behavior learned from family members, according to Jay.
"It starts as soon as they learn how to talk," Jay says. "At a young age, they're attentive to emotions. When you're swearing to be funny or when you're angry that just draws them right to it."
Jay notes that the Internet, television and other media may be making adolescents more comfortable with swearing, but it is their parents' own language habits that are the biggest influence.
The solution, says Jay, is for parents to teach the etiquette of swearing.
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By the time they're in tenth grade, their language patterns have already be instilled.
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