Mass media and Youth

Mass media are full of reports about the toll that drugs, alcohol, sex, peer pressure, and a coarse culture are taking on young people. There are also plenty of experts on TV explaining the causes of youth problems, even though the experts seem never to agree.

Undoubtedly, it is rare for today's teenager not to have known or at least known of someone who was injured or killed because he or she made a bad choice. High schools are rumor mills about this girl or that who got pregnant. Everybody has seen stories of teenagers dying in a car accident after a night of rowdy beer drinking. These are not all underprivileged kids from broken homes or kids who got put in "the system" for crimes. They were kids who were bombarded with ad image

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