November 3, 2008, 12:18 pm Can TV Make Your Teen Pregnant? By Lisa Belkin Television can make your teenager pregnant.
Not directly, of course. But the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics is releasing a study today, linking sexual content on television with the teenage pregnancy rate. The research was done by the nonpartisan nonprofit Rand Corporation and tracked 700 subjects, age 12 through 17, for three years. Those who saw the most necking, flirting, touching, sexual conversation and sex scenes on TV during that period of time were twice as likely to become pregnant or make their partner pregnant than those who saw the least. (Specifically, 25 percent of those who watched such scenes most often were involved in a pregnancy, compared with 12 percent who watched the fewest sexual scenes.) ... http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/can-tv-make-your-teen-pregnant/ Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings From a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/122/5/1047 Exposure To Sexual Content On Television Linked To Teen Pregnancy http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/nov08studies.htm Longitudinal Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression in Japan and the United States http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/122/5/e1067 *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
