It’s sad to see adolescent girls and boys trying to handle relationship issues that adults struggle with, eg, pregnancy, stds etc.
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October 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Sadly the simple answer is because many parents have become friends rather than parents who are more worried about their children liking them momentarily than properly raising their children and creating a positive influence on them. Now, this is not to say that all children who deal with the problems have bad parents, but many are.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Since, in most households, there is either one or two parents who have to work (in other words, few stay-at-home parents anymore), children have a lot of unsupervised time — and it’s during this time that the mischief starts.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I know, it’s horrible to see. (I’m 16 myself and only young but i think its not right, and i think it’s not right for the media to be influencing people in this way)
It’s also selfish to see children bring up children of their own, as they haven’t lived. I know myself i don’t want kids until im like early 30’s, late 20’s pushing it a little.
The media is too influencing
October 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Very Very true
October 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I don’t.
Do you?
October 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Wait a second…who says that advertising and entertainers are actually the responsible ones? Certainly, *some* studies connect the two, but they largely state that teens watching entertainment material with sexual overtones are more likely to engage in sexual activity – they do not say that eliminating the sexual overtones somehow prevents kids from having sex.
Let me remind you that teenagers have been sexually active since well…the beginning of time. Less than a century ago it might not have been unusual for people in their mid-teens to get married and bear children (when lifespans were about fifty years or so and mothers frequently died during childbirth).
Is it possible that instead our sexual attitudes have changed to become more Puritanical and for some reason the tendency is for parents to try and shield their children from sex – when maybe they should be exposing their children to it? Americans largely continue to support abstinence education when there is overwhelming evidence that it DOESN’T WORK. Instead, we try to clamp down our culture (which face it, is impossible in this day and age when any enterprising twelve-year old with a broadband connection can find porn online – yes moms, it happens. Sorry to bust your bubble).
Instead of trying to shield children and "protect them" from something which they will inevitably be exposed to and will inevitably engage in, I think the best thing is to engage them in a dialogue that best prepares them to meet the potential complications that sexual activity can cause – pregnancy, STDs, emotional/physical injury, etc. Doesn’t going into something informed far preferable to the alternative?
If you have any great, *realistic* ideas on how to eliminate sexual overtones from advertising or entertainers entirely, that’d be interesting. I happen to think it’s an exercise in futility, because sex is like unhealthy food or alcohol. It’s out there, and kids will get their hands on it…unless you keep them chained to a desk all day.