Take a lot of horny, inexperienced kids, put them onto some campus far removed from their parents, strip away all responsibility; nothing else would be on the brain but a lot of sex. ... Nowadays, these kids are coming into college with a lot more sexual experience than they did along time ago. ... And often it's the students being under the influence of either drugs or alcohol, sometimes without condoms or any other form of protection. ...

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These games are not kid-friendly. ... Encouraging children to go to positive websites, monitoring what they see and watch as well as parental locks on inappropriate things can all influence better behavior today. ... If parents think of different ways to influence positive behavior for their children, slowly but surely, behavior will start to change....

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Sex Education and the Classroom In today's society there is an on going debate over sex education and its influence on our children. ... "Kids don't go asking their parents, this is the only way for them to find out answers because they are to embarrassed to ask anyone else," says Pallodino, and eighteen-year-old from Virginia. ... There are many reasons why people feel like this, two of which are they feel as if sex education does no good at all and another is that people feel that it is influencing students to have sex. ... She feels as though the information that students a...

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According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." ... That movie is rated R, but little kids were in there with their parents. ... Now those kids might end up having sex when they become teenagers. ... In Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood, the average adolescent mother receives income and food stamps valued at just over $17,000 annually- Recent declines in pregnancy and birth rates, howeve...

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Society has a huge part in influencing teens. ... My secondary source said that ways to prevent your kids from becoming drug users is to enrol them in extra-curricular activities and sports, since these types of teens are less likely to experiment with drugs (Riera 168). ... My secondary source found that one problem with violence is the influence form music lyrics. ...

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(http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/02.27/AIDSExpertsUnit.html Copyright 1998 President and Fellows of Harvard College) What people see in movies and on television is going to greatly influence what they do in life. ...

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Abstinence is very important, but the peers your child hangs around are just as important. " The Nurture Assumption " says that peer groups matter a lot more than parents influencing how kids turn out, because you can pass your genes, but not your values. ...

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Young teenage girls can be easily influenced, and when they see this show and what the women are doing they feel that it is alright to sleep around with thirty different men. ... I blame it on the parents who won't talk to their kids about sex because they either don't want their children to learn about it or their afraid of what might happen if their children know about it. ...

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Some find it normal that sick people, perverts, and rich people use their money and influence to gravely abuse other humans. ... I was forced and threatened; and if we are adults, what about the kids who find themselves in this milieu? ...

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