You cannot expect to send a 16 year old to college and still have full control over their curfew and monitor their social life. Of course, along with drinking comes sexual promiscuity. STD’s, or sexually transmitted diseases, are also at epidemic proportions. American teenagers have more pregnancies, births, and abortions than youngsters in any other Western Industrialized country. One-third of young US girls, about 820,000, become pregnant before they turn 20 (80% are unmarried) and 4 million American teens contract an STD each year.
It only took thirty eight months for seventy four percent of teenagers to feel too big or too fat, and sixty two percent started to diet. Teenagers at risk of eating disorders more than doubled in this time period (Goodman 608). Before watching Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, or 90210, big was beautiful, it was something to aspire to. Then after watching television programs that idolize women with smaller waist sizes teenagers beginning feeling as though they need smaller waist sizes to be attractive. These teenagers are associating being thin with getting the great jobs, the beautiful clothing, and the expensive cars that the characters on their favorite television programs seem to acquire with little to no effort.
Firstly, Brown uses expert opinion. He quotes D Lum from the Maroondah hospital and the shocking fact that young children, whilst drunk are being sexually assaulted. This would position his readers, mostly parents to see the dark side of alcohol and teenagers as no parent would want for their teenage child to be sexually assaulted. Secondly he uses statistics. Brown highlights the 300% increase in hospital admissions of drunken teenagers.
Today, plastic surgery has become in high demand among males and females, teenagers in order to look their physically best. On the other hand Hassen-Biber talks about a critical illness among teenagers and adults called Bulimia Nervosa. Although the authors approach different situations among teenagers and adults in which they put their lives at risk in different ways, both authors agree that one major reason for this issue is the American media. Blum focuses on make over shows and plastic surgery. “Extreme makeover shows us people being made good-looking enough to be on television.” (pg.
"The campaign, 'Rethink Your Drink,' takes aim at sugary drinks like soda, sports drinks and fake ‘juices’.” A 2012 survey of over 600 Hawaii teenagers revealed that 93 percent reported consuming sugary drinks every week, and 48 percent said they had a sugary drink every day. (Twenty-seven percent of teenagers and over half of adults in Hawaii are overweight or obese.)" Led by the Department of Health, Hawaii hopes to reach out to 100% of its teenagers to educate about the sugary drinks being consumed. In the effort to teach as opposed to restrict, this campaign has shown a greater decline in obesity rates. The secret is using a 'gross' method which depicts teenagers drinking bottles of lard with fat flowing down their faces.
Research suggests that alcohol use by the offender, the victims or both, increases the likelihood of sexual assault by a male acquaintance (NIAAA). Individual under the age of 21 commit 45 percent of rapes,44 percent commit robberies and 37 percent commit sexual assault. Its estimated that the population as a whole, 50 percent of violent crime is related to alcohol use. And most of this teenagers are at high risk of sex intercourse, because the alcohol in their system is too high, they have sex with anybody without knowing the person and the person may become eventually become pregnant and they have to accept the responsibility which they might not be ready for and they may end up aborting the baby which is another sin. They may also have unprotected sex with someone who is infected with a disease such as Hiv/Aids, syphilis, staphylococcus and other sexual transmitted disease therefore passing it
On the other hand, television can “inform teens about risks and foster communication with parents”, which is a good influence on teens (544). She supports this claim using two recent studies. Those studies examine “the impact of television sex on teenagers’ sexual beliefs and activities” and “the results supported the view that watching shows with sexual content may influence teen sexual behavior, but also found that some viewing effects can be positive” (542). In the first survey, she points out the relationship between percentage of virgins initiating intercourse in subsequent year and age; the survey shows “teens who saw the most sex on television were twice as likely to initiate intercourse within the next year as were those who saw the least” (544). Finally, she closes her argument by suggesting that “teens’ expose[r] to sexual content on television” should be reduced, and that people should “…explore greater use of entertainment shows to
You may also be more likely to binge drink if you are feeling peer pressure to do so. Or, you may be feeling anxious or socially awkward, for example at a party, and you may binge drink with the aim to reduce those feelings. 14 per cent of men and 11 per cent of women drink every day Half of Britain's young adults first got drunk before the age of 15. liver disease could become one of the biggest killers as a result of the country's binge drinking culture. 48 per cent of those in the 18 to 24 age group were between the ages of 13 and 15 when they first got drunk, while 6 per cent were aged under 12. It also found that 14 per cent of men and 11 per cent of women drink every day and 6 per cent of men drink more than a week's recommended alcohol intake in one night.
A child that’s been abuse so much can also commit suicide and get hook on drugs really bad. Recent studies indicate high levels of sexual violence in childhood up to 21 per cent according to multi-country study conducted by the World Health Organization with girls far more likely to be abused than boys (www.unicef.org). The domestic violence can go from generations to generations. The violent behavior stays with a child when they has move out the home. Boys who are exposed to their parent’s domestic violence are twice as likely to become abusive men as are the sons of non-violent parents (www.unicef.org).
These countries are said to have a “culture of tolerance” which is causing the sex industry to become more successful than ever. The United States is daily normalizing the idea of pimping and prostitution to America’s youngest. Through many forms of entertainment, such as music and television, the numbers of children being lured into the sex business is growing tremendously (Kotrla 3). While this business is being portrayed as “fun” or “cool”, the public fails to realize the gruesome reality of this industry. Thousands of victims across the country are being beaten, abused, and exploited as if they were