Parents Beware

Zenit News Agency ^ | 12-15-2008 | Teresa Tomeo

[gaudete]

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, DEC. 15, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Does watching sex and aggression on TV and in video games lead teens to have sex and be more aggressive in real life? Two studies published by the journal of the American Pediatrics Association say yes.

"Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth," conducted by the Rand Corporation, and "Longitudinal Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression in Japan and the United States," by Craig A. Anderson, director of Iowa State University's Center for the Study of Violence, appeared in the November issue of "Pediatrics." Both studies showed a correlation between the behaviors witnessed on TV or in video games and a change of behavior in adolescent.

Full article: http://zenit.org/article-24572?l=english

[gaudete]

Will this make the front page of the LA Times?

[nmh]

Gee, who would have GUESSED that?

Common sense is in short supply.

[Ugot2Bkidding]

Common sense is in short supply.

Boy you got that right!

[OCC]

If media did not have an effect on peoples behavior, companies would not be spending billions on advertising.

[MeanWestTexan]

Hmmm, NOT playing videogames and going on a football trip with the cheerleaders in the same bus in 9th grade led me to have sex at an early age

-— and then getting sent to a religious boarding school in another country where strict morals were taught and an iron fist kept on us led med to have sex at an early age, too.

Let’s face it: teenagers are walking hormones.

Raise them up right, and IN THEIR OLD AGE, they will return to the way of the Lord.

[CE2949BB]

Linkage:

Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings From a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Abstract.

Longitudinal Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression in Japan and the United States Abstract.

[familyop]

"Will this make the front page of the LA Times?"

It certainly will, if the LA Times people see it. Attitudes about sex and violence are mostly learned from libertine, selfish parents and libertine, selfish peers in public schools.

Games like Quake 3 and Postal 2 don't lead teens or adults to violence, although such games do improve their spacial-visual coordination and make them laugh at bizarre situations. Properly taught young people know the difference between a game and real cruelty. Lack of moral teachings does open them to apathetic, violent and promiscuous tendencies promoted by their peers.

How many of you have attacked someone or had one-night stands due to influence by a morbid joke? How many of you have done so, because your peers did so?

[familyop]

BTW, feminist/romantic propaganda has done more to influence young people toward promiscuity than movies or games.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think a better question would be:

“Do parents who let their children run amok get children who run amok?”

Even years ago, school efforts like DARE and other such programs were populated by straight-laced, disciplined children of orderly parents, the last kids who actually needed those programs. Nothing quite like seeing a bunch of upper class Mormon kids given weekly urinalysis tests. These were kids who wouldn’t touch soft drinks.

Comic books, TV shows, video games, etc., are far less likely to create such problems than to feed such problems. A lot of the kids that do drugs and drink are “self-medicating”, because their home life stinks. They are the ones prone to every vile thing.