Sex on Television Effect on Children

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TITLE That is a story about one of my little cousin Carine, who used to watch a lot of sexuality shows on television when she was fifteen years old. At that age, she was still considering as a kid. For example, she was all the time watching the TV show “ 16 and pregnant ”. She watched it and after try to do the same thing with her boyfriend at that age. Finally she got pregnant at seventeen years old and her parents got really upset and decided to stop paying her school. In fact, in my country being pregnant at that age is a shame for the family. Nowadays, children and teens are more likely to experiment sexually. Unfortunately this leads to unexpected pregnancies and also health issues. However, Teens usually view sex talk on television differently as adult. Where adults view sex talk as mentally, teens start mopping out pictures in their mind, at what they are learning. (Rand Corporation paragraph 4). I strongly agree with this paraphrase because it’s directly related to the case of my cousin who got an earlier pregnancy. Also,“ The media can be one of three things: Neutral on values, reinforcing values or dismissive/destructive of values.” (William Tripplet Should sexuality provocative material be restricted?). I also strongly agree with that. In fact, the survey showed that watching television with sexual content artificially aged the children. It also says that those who watched sexual content on television behaved sexually as though they were nine to seventeen months older and watch only average amount. (Tomashoff,Craig children, media and sex: a big book of blank pages paragraph 2). While allowing kids to watch television, it is necessary to keep them informed and aware of what is happening around them. In fact, the parents should control what their children are watching in order to give them some advices. Given below are some points on how television

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