"What you see is (influence of media)" In the United States, the media has a great amount of influence over human sexuality. ... On the opposite side, the media also influences how we see ourselves. ... The negative effect this media influence has on us comes in the form of self-imaging. ... (I always wondered how they managed to have kids. ... Though there are many more outlets the media has for influencing our views, their use of this power cannot be denied. ...

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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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It is obvious that the media influences children. ... By spending so much time under this influence, children are exposed to this sexual content as well. ... Another major contribution to this sexual influence is music videos. Many kids watch music videos, and some of these singers even become role models for the children. ... All children are influenced by what they see or hear, and because sexual content is rampant in the media, the children in this country have been forced to deal with a mature subject matter at a very young age. ...

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Definitions of right and wrong are extremely varied, and in this culture conflict the attitudes towards criminal behavior of the important people in the child's life influence the attitudes that he or she develops. ... It is these sensation, or chaos seekers who cannot govern their unconscious desires, and let those desires surface in unhealthy ways. 6A number of etiological factors (casual influences) have been identified that are believed to help explain the developmental origin of juvenile sex offending. ... However, just because most kids who are offenders have been subjected to thes...

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Most parents allow their kids to go to middle school wearing provocative clothing and much too much makeup for their age. ... This may be the reason that kids will engage in sexual behavior before the appropriate age. Kids turn to what they see on television in ads and in movies and are being taught to be sexy and skimpy. ... As a result of this powerful media, society has an increasing amount of influence in the children's decision making than it did in the past. ... Parents need to start taking some time away from work or whatever it is that they are doing, and sit down with their kid...

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A bystander has five motivations to intervene when there is trouble, and with the five points is a "conceptual framework"" of their influence. ... Young men influence themselves to have some "fun"" with drunken girls, which motivate them to be sexual criminals. ... Many kids will influence the conflict, making it worse for the victim. ... For example, two out of three kids want to help when they observe bullying, and assisting is the most effective way to prevent bullying, or conflicts in general. ... A victim might influence a specific person who will most likely be of assistance rather than...

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Focusing on certain matters that influence young teens to have sex should be looked into in every health class. ... It's important to give kids the tools to be able to say no when or if they are faced with a moment that they will have to decide. ... Often, kids have a lot of questions about sex that they don't feel comfortable asking their parents. ... Teaching kids the real facts about sex while treating different cultures with the respect that they deserve is the best way to stop unwanted teen pregnancy in this country. All states need to form better sex education programs; somethi...

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He also adds that it helps kids learn what commitment is, learn what it means to have self-control as well as to learn to respect yourself and your fellow peers (Is). ... If somehow we can relate to these kids, and teach them the dangers of having sex, we can decrease the n umber of HIV cases, as well as STD"s. A lot of kids do not fully understand the concept of sex. They sometimes get pressured into it, or they may be under the influence of a drug. ...

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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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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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Exposure to pornography and substance abuse are noted to be predisposing factors, however, they are more likely to be classified as dis-inhibitors than causal influences (Hunter, 1999, Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d., Van et al., 2007). ...

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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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Though it may not be intentional, viewers of television or readers of books can be influenced and manipulated by mass media's depiction of relationships. ... In addition to influencing relationships, media's portrayal of underage drinking and partying can have a similar negative influence on a young viewer who is just beginning to explore these subjects. ... We simply cannot underestimate the power that media has to influence teens to drink. Gossip Girl is a prime example of the type of media that can influence young minds in a negative way. ... But if you look deeper in Gossip Gi...

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These practices were not totally dependable, and ladies who were utilizing these techniques were all the while having numerous kids without the goal to do as such. ... Families troubled with numerous kids were frequently devastated from needing to accommodate everyone. ... This control most specifically influenced ladies' vocation and opened doors for educational opportunities. ...

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For example, this person sees her life filled with many surprises, with beautiful healthy kids, a great and successful job, and a good title. ... Sacrifices such as, having to stay away from her parents, since she plans to live in the stateside because it'll influence her kids to becoming social people and is familiar with the city outlook. ...

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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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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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(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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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. ...

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American culture influences the on- going sex- role socialization of the young, attitudes toward rape, and sexually aggressive behavior. ... Some kids said if a guy paid more than 10.00 on a date, he had a right to have sex with the woman whether she wanted it or not. ...

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