RAND: Sexual Content On T.V. Linked To Increase In Teen Pregnancy

I... Am.... Utterly.... Shocked.....! NOT! The RAND Corporation's new study links sexual content on television to the increase in teen pregnancies. Wow, never would have seen that one coming. OF COURSE IT'S LINKED! You'd have to be an idiot, or a liberal, to NOT see the connection. Glad to see the brains of the world are finally catching up to what the rest of us already knew. For an encore, I suppose it will be revealed that water, is in fact, wet.

If anything, I think the more surprising part of this story is, that it aired on CNN. Someones about to lose their job, me thinks. But sure enough it was on this morning, on this mornings Morning Express with Robin Meade. And the article is even being carried there on the CNN site. How weird is that? Bah! It must just be CNN trying to put on a balanced face. They must get tired of being called "the video version of the New York Times," so they have to shake it up a bit.

So here's the gist; The RAND Corp. conducted a study of around 2,000 adolescents ages 12 to 17 from 2001 to 2004. They put together a research group, looking over 23 various shows for any sexual content. They then asked those kids how often they viewed each of the reviewed programs. They then came up with a score based on the teens exposure to those shows. The overall report was narrowed down to about 700 of the participants, who were "getting it on" by the time the third survey had come around.

A few key points from the CNN article; "A central message from the study is that there needs to be more dialogue about sex in the media, particularly among parents and their children, said Anita Chandra, the study's lead author and a behavioral scientist at RAND." Yeah, like it's there, it's overwhelming to most of todays kids who are NOT mature enough for the content being shown them.

"We know that if a child is watching more than an hour of TV a day, we know there's a sexual scene in [the] content every 10 minutes, then they're getting a fair amount of sexual content," Chandra said. Hey, free love right? Isn't that what the left is all about? The normalization of the single mom? They, and Planned Genocide should be thrilled.

Even when accounting for other related factors such as demographics and risk-taking behaviors, the correlation between televised sexual content and teen pregnancy persisted, she said. The study also found that adolescents living in a two-parent household had a lower probability of pregnancy. Ya don't say? You hear that deadbeats dad's (and in some cases, mom's) of America? Get your a$$ in gear and own up to what you've contributed to.

Previous RAND research also showed that teens who watch a lot of television with sexual content are more likely to initiate intercourse the following year. I'm thinking the old adage, even if rather childish, of "monkey see, monkey do" fits well here.

The National Institutes of Health reported in July that teen pregnancies rose in the United States from 2005 to 2006 for the first time since 1991. Hmmm.. What year did Planned Genocide start handing out condoms in school?

Anyways, the CNN article has some good info on this topic. I recommend at least a skimming of their article.