Solution:
Subject: Teen Pregnancy
Cause: Media
Solution: Make a show that talks about how teen pregnancy is bad and not good.To show that having babies is not bad but to show that teenagers aren’t in good health for the babies.
Support for Solution: To make a TV show that shows how teen pregnancy makes life worst and harder on the teenager. To show how it rips families apart and to show how it is not good for that person’s health. TV shows have been recorded to show how they help teenagers with the subject but nobody says how it helps. Someone needs to help them in a good way. They need to point out that it is not good for a teenager’s health to be doing such thing and that they don’t need to being moving so fast because not just sex but also parting and stuff that they will have nothing to look forward too.
Implementation Plan for Solution: The audience would be the whole world and the families out there with this probably or issue. I want to make a TV show that actually shows documentations, and life stories so the people out there no the risk that they are taking and how you can go from loving boyfriend/friend to someone who doesn’t talk to you anymore because they don’t want to deal with a child in there life. I want to get the truth out there to where everybody can see it. To know that the risk that they are taking is not always good. Someone teenagers want to have babies soon but what’s the rush. What’s the point of life if you are always rushed or worried? You are suppose to enjoy it and talk your time, and not let anybody to tell you different unless you got a job then you just might get fired. You don’t want that to happen. I want to make a TV show/documentary that tells the truth. I will raise funds at local fundraisers, markets and just anywhere if I have to get the word out there. I’ll try to get it on TV that way people will stop believe the shows like teen mom or 16 and pregnant because most of the time they just show how their life works and not how things happened or what the rush of being pregnant cause that person to feel or do.
Group Responsibilities: Kyle typed up the report and I did the research.
Resources: Some of these resources Kyle had gotten from the people he grouped up with to share resources.
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/TeenPregnancy/index.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1855842,00.html
http://www.ncrw.org/public-forum/real-deal-blog/glamorization-teen-pregnancy
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91922569
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22099/108370-teenage-pregnancy-media-s-influence-today-s
Cause: Media
Solution: Make a show that talks about how teen pregnancy is bad and not good.To show that having babies is not bad but to show that teenagers aren’t in good health for the babies.
Support for Solution: To make a TV show that shows how teen pregnancy makes life worst and harder on the teenager. To show how it rips families apart and to show how it is not good for that person’s health. TV shows have been recorded to show how they help teenagers with the subject but nobody says how it helps. Someone needs to help them in a good way. They need to point out that it is not good for a teenager’s health to be doing such thing and that they don’t need to being moving so fast because not just sex but also parting and stuff that they will have nothing to look forward too.
Implementation Plan for Solution: The audience would be the whole world and the families out there with this probably or issue. I want to make a TV show that actually shows documentations, and life stories so the people out there no the risk that they are taking and how you can go from loving boyfriend/friend to someone who doesn’t talk to you anymore because they don’t want to deal with a child in there life. I want to get the truth out there to where everybody can see it. To know that the risk that they are taking is not always good. Someone teenagers want to have babies soon but what’s the rush. What’s the point of life if you are always rushed or worried? You are suppose to enjoy it and talk your time, and not let anybody to tell you different unless you got a job then you just might get fired. You don’t want that to happen. I want to make a TV show/documentary that tells the truth. I will raise funds at local fundraisers, markets and just anywhere if I have to get the word out there. I’ll try to get it on TV that way people will stop believe the shows like teen mom or 16 and pregnant because most of the time they just show how their life works and not how things happened or what the rush of being pregnant cause that person to feel or do.
Group Responsibilities: Kyle typed up the report and I did the research.
Resources: Some of these resources Kyle had gotten from the people he grouped up with to share resources.
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/TeenPregnancy/index.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1855842,00.html
http://www.ncrw.org/public-forum/real-deal-blog/glamorization-teen-pregnancy
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91922569
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22099/108370-teenage-pregnancy-media-s-influence-today-s
Research:
Source: http://depts.washington.edu/thmedia/view.cgi?section=medialiteracy&page=fastfacts
Facts: The question that has been debated by parents, psychologists and media critics for years is whether such racy content has an adverse effect on young viewers. Now researchers at the Rand Corp. say they have documented for the first time how such exposure can influence teen pregnancy rates. They found that teens exposed to the most sexual content on TV are twice as likely as teens watching less of this material to become pregnant before they reach age 20.
"The relationship between exposure of this kind of content on TV and the risk of later pregnancy is fairly strong," says Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist and the study's author. "Even if it were diminished by other contributing factors, the association still holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied on onetime snapshots of adolescents' behavior, Chandra believes the continuity of her study reinforces the strength of the relationship she found between pregnancy and exposure to sexual content on television.
Previous research has revealed two major ways that this glamorized perception of sex contributes to teen pregnancy: by encouraging teens to become sexually active early in their adolescence and by promoting inconsistent use of contraceptives. And, notes Dr. Donald Shifrin, former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on communications, add to this the fact that children are accessing television not just via the small screen at home but on the computer and increasingly on cell phones, and the opportunities for exposure to sexual content just explode. "It's not just 'appointment' television, now it's anytime television," says Shifrin. "And this study was begun seven years ago, so if it were done today, [the authors] would probably find more evidence of sex on screens that affects youngsters' behaviors."
Yet it's neither likely nor realistic to expect the television and movie industries to curb the amount of sexual content in their products. That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics created the Media Matters campaign more than a decade ago to promote awareness within the industry of how influential its TV shows and movies are to youngsters and to alert parents to the critical role they play in monitoring and mediating what their children watch. Having ammunition in the form of a study-based association such as Chandra documented just gives the message more impact.
Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/11/05/tv-sex-influences-teen-pregnancy/3269.html
Facts: “Our findings suggest that television may play a significant role in the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the United States.”
Researchers from RAND Health say that exposure to sex on television may influence teen pregnancy by creating the perception that there is little risk to engaging in sex without using contraceptives and accelerating the initiation of sexual intercourse.
“The amount of sexual content on television has doubled in recent years, and there is little representation of safer sex practices in those portrayals,” Chandra said.
Broadcasters should be encouraged to include more realistic depictions of sex in scripts and to portray consequences such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Parents should consider limiting their children’s access to programming with sexual content and spending more time watching programs with their children so they can explain the consequences of sex.
Pediatricians should ask adolescents about their media use and discuss with them both contraception and the consequences that may accompany sexual activity.
Study on the affects of the media on teen pregnancy:
Researchers interviewed 2,003 12- to 17-year-olds over the phone in 2001, and then followed up with those same youths in an effort to interview them again in 2002 and 2004.
The interviews focused in detail on teens’ TV viewing habits as well as their sexual attitudes, knowledge and behavior. Participants shared information about how frequently they watched 23 TV programs that were popular with teens at the time of the survey. The shows included a wide range of animated and live-action programs, reality shows, sitcoms and dramas that aired on broadcast networks and basic and premium cable channels. The programs included “Sex and the City,” “That ’70s Show” and “Friends.”
“This might surprise people, but sitcoms had the highest sexual content,” Chandra said, noting that such content can include sexual dialogue in addition to actual sexual behavior.
By the third telephone interview, 744 of the youths said they had engaged in sexual intercourse, and 718 of them shared information about their pregnancy histories. Of that group, a total of 91 youths — 58 girls and 33 boys — said they had experienced a pregnancy or had gotten a girl pregnant.
In the final analysis, teens who had watched the most sexual content on television during the three-year study period were twice as likely to have been involved in a pregnancy as teens with the lowest levels of exposure.
Chandra said TV-watching was strongly connected with teen pregnancy even when other factors were considered, including grades, family structure and parents’ education level.
But the study didn’t adequately address other issues, such as self-esteem, family values and income, contends Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, a teen sex education program based at Rutgers University.
“The media does have an impact, but we don’t know the full extent of it because there are so many other factors,” Schroeder said.
Bill Albert, chief program officer at the nonprofit National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, praised the study and said it “catches up with common sense.”
The study, paid for by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, followed a 2004 study by some of the same scientists that indicated watching sexual content on TV can make teens more likely to have sex at earlier ages.
Chandra said the new findings are significant given the intractable social and public health problems associated with teen pregnancies. While the teen pregnancy rate in the United States has dropped considerably since the early ’90s, the U.S. rate remains one of the highest among the world’s industrialized nations. Nearly 1 million young women between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year in the U.S., and they are more likely than other teens to drop out of high school and live in poverty.
- Facts: Two out of every three shows on TV include sexual content, an increase from about half of all shows during the 97/98 television season. The most widely viewed shows-those airing in primetime on the major networks-are even more likely to include sexual content.
- Sexual intercourse is depicted or strongly implied in one of every ten shows on TV.
- Of those instances of sexual intercourse either depicted or strongly implied, only half occurred among couples who had an established relationship with one another. Ten Percent involved couples who had just met.
- Only 10% of all television programs contain sexual scenes that include any reference to the possible risks or responsibilities associated with sex, including pregnancy or STDs. However, shows that depict teens in sexual situations, especially those involved in sexual intercourse, are much more likely than other shows to include references to the possible uses or responsibilities of sexual activity. While eight percent of all shows contain sexual content involving teens, nearly 20 percent make some reference to waiting to have sex, safer sex or the risks of sexual activity.
- 9% of TV programs include some sexual content involving teens. While two years ago, 3% of all characters involved in intercourse were teens, today that figured has jumped to 9%.
- According to a study prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation, fifty hours of programming selected included 156 acts of sexual intercourse and only five references within three episodes to contraception or safer sex. The only mention of HIV/AIDS referred to contraction through IV drug use and not sexual activity.
- There are strong theoretical reasons to believe that media may play an especially important role in the socialization of sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Health topics in entertainment television shows can increase viewers' awareness of important health issues.
- In a study of 13-and 14-year-olds, heavy exposure to sexually oriented television increased acceptance of nonmarital sex.
- In a Kaiser Family Foundation study, 76 percent of teens said that one reason young people have sex is because TV shows and movies make it seem normal for teens.
- In another Kaiser Family Foundation study, most children aged 11 to 13 and some children aged 8 to 10 understood the sexual content, even the jokes and innuendoes about sex.
- Viewing of daytime serials and MTV is a predictor of sexually permissive attitudes and behavior among college students. Older adolescents in one study tended to mimic the sexual themes from the shows they watched.
- College students exposed to large amounts of sexual behaviors on television were more likely to believe that their peers engaged in those same activities.
Facts: The question that has been debated by parents, psychologists and media critics for years is whether such racy content has an adverse effect on young viewers. Now researchers at the Rand Corp. say they have documented for the first time how such exposure can influence teen pregnancy rates. They found that teens exposed to the most sexual content on TV are twice as likely as teens watching less of this material to become pregnant before they reach age 20.
"The relationship between exposure of this kind of content on TV and the risk of later pregnancy is fairly strong," says Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist and the study's author. "Even if it were diminished by other contributing factors, the association still holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied on onetime snapshots of adolescents' behavior, Chandra believes the continuity of her study reinforces the strength of the relationship she found between pregnancy and exposure to sexual content on television.
Previous research has revealed two major ways that this glamorized perception of sex contributes to teen pregnancy: by encouraging teens to become sexually active early in their adolescence and by promoting inconsistent use of contraceptives. And, notes Dr. Donald Shifrin, former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on communications, add to this the fact that children are accessing television not just via the small screen at home but on the computer and increasingly on cell phones, and the opportunities for exposure to sexual content just explode. "It's not just 'appointment' television, now it's anytime television," says Shifrin. "And this study was begun seven years ago, so if it were done today, [the authors] would probably find more evidence of sex on screens that affects youngsters' behaviors."
Yet it's neither likely nor realistic to expect the television and movie industries to curb the amount of sexual content in their products. That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics created the Media Matters campaign more than a decade ago to promote awareness within the industry of how influential its TV shows and movies are to youngsters and to alert parents to the critical role they play in monitoring and mediating what their children watch. Having ammunition in the form of a study-based association such as Chandra documented just gives the message more impact.
Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/11/05/tv-sex-influences-teen-pregnancy/3269.html
Facts: “Our findings suggest that television may play a significant role in the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the United States.”
Researchers from RAND Health say that exposure to sex on television may influence teen pregnancy by creating the perception that there is little risk to engaging in sex without using contraceptives and accelerating the initiation of sexual intercourse.
“The amount of sexual content on television has doubled in recent years, and there is little representation of safer sex practices in those portrayals,” Chandra said.
Broadcasters should be encouraged to include more realistic depictions of sex in scripts and to portray consequences such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Parents should consider limiting their children’s access to programming with sexual content and spending more time watching programs with their children so they can explain the consequences of sex.
Pediatricians should ask adolescents about their media use and discuss with them both contraception and the consequences that may accompany sexual activity.
Study on the affects of the media on teen pregnancy:
Researchers interviewed 2,003 12- to 17-year-olds over the phone in 2001, and then followed up with those same youths in an effort to interview them again in 2002 and 2004.
The interviews focused in detail on teens’ TV viewing habits as well as their sexual attitudes, knowledge and behavior. Participants shared information about how frequently they watched 23 TV programs that were popular with teens at the time of the survey. The shows included a wide range of animated and live-action programs, reality shows, sitcoms and dramas that aired on broadcast networks and basic and premium cable channels. The programs included “Sex and the City,” “That ’70s Show” and “Friends.”
“This might surprise people, but sitcoms had the highest sexual content,” Chandra said, noting that such content can include sexual dialogue in addition to actual sexual behavior.
By the third telephone interview, 744 of the youths said they had engaged in sexual intercourse, and 718 of them shared information about their pregnancy histories. Of that group, a total of 91 youths — 58 girls and 33 boys — said they had experienced a pregnancy or had gotten a girl pregnant.
In the final analysis, teens who had watched the most sexual content on television during the three-year study period were twice as likely to have been involved in a pregnancy as teens with the lowest levels of exposure.
Chandra said TV-watching was strongly connected with teen pregnancy even when other factors were considered, including grades, family structure and parents’ education level.
But the study didn’t adequately address other issues, such as self-esteem, family values and income, contends Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, a teen sex education program based at Rutgers University.
“The media does have an impact, but we don’t know the full extent of it because there are so many other factors,” Schroeder said.
Bill Albert, chief program officer at the nonprofit National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, praised the study and said it “catches up with common sense.”
The study, paid for by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, followed a 2004 study by some of the same scientists that indicated watching sexual content on TV can make teens more likely to have sex at earlier ages.
Chandra said the new findings are significant given the intractable social and public health problems associated with teen pregnancies. While the teen pregnancy rate in the United States has dropped considerably since the early ’90s, the U.S. rate remains one of the highest among the world’s industrialized nations. Nearly 1 million young women between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year in the U.S., and they are more likely than other teens to drop out of high school and live in poverty.