However, the facts are obvious-teenaged females are highly influenced by many social issues, but those with the lack of strong parental guidance, sex education, and positive mass media are more likely to have a premarital pregnancy.  ... The child provides positive regard (love), affection, and fulfills the social loss. ... Even the federal government has found teenage pregnancy to be a social issue in which lack of parental guidance, sex education, and positive media has been recognized. ... The media portrays single parent homes, teen pregnancy, and the social issue that America faces in a...

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Television, the media and music are all distorting the rules of society. ... (Brandon Tartikoff, Former President of the National Broadcasting Company Time Magazine) The next significant topic to be discussed is the influences of the TV, the media and parents and how they can create the outcome of adolescents. ... (Grossman of Time Magazine) It is important to note that in the media, violence can be viewed as a positive aspect in adolescents, as long as the acts are not glamorized and are shown in a negative light as causing human suffering and pain. ... (Former probation officer from Brookly...

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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. 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." (Meier, 1994, p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort o...

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