Laurie's story is one of many that illustrate the pages of Meg Meeker's "Epidemic: How Teen Sex is Killing Our Kids."" ... By applying the social learning theory and other similar theories to this problem, they have determined that television is acting like an older sibling; kids learn by imitation. The more they watch, the more they are influenced. ... Factors other than the characters may also influence teens. ... Sex is often depicted as a casual act of two (or more) people that may influence viewers to accept the idea of "one night stands- without hesitation. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For students, it has meant confusion about moral values: learning to question values they have scarcely acquired, unlearning values taught at home, and concluding that questions of right and wrong are always changing with the influence of society. ... Divorce rates leaped in the 1970's, absent or self-involved parents and child-rearing practices were blamed for creating misbehaving, out-of-control kids; the family was believed to be in big trouble. ... Meanwhile, kids are experimenting with their own sexuality at earlier and earlier ages. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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The Internet can be great for lots of things but can also be a bad influence on adolescence. ... Being able to view these things exposes teens to a whole other world of sexual content, which can influence teens not always in a positive way. ... This shows that an influence can help teens make the right decisions. ... As young as nine years old, I have heard kids making sexual remarks in which they had no idea about what they meant. ...

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There is no doubt that being raised and educated by women had influence on her view of individuality. ... She also gave her kids as much freedom as possible. ... Her family had a big influence on her works, and the way she viewed society period. ... She even gave her kids as much freedom as possible. ...

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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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Sex education can offer statistics on diseases, pregnancies, and serious untreatable viruses such as HIV, will allow these kids to see that there is more to sex than just the act itself. ... Abstinent only programs teach the youth that waiting for sex is a positive and healthy way to live their lives as well as showing ways to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drugs have a negative influence and can deter one from the goal of being abstinent. ...

• Word Count: 1819
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate