ATTACK ON A GENERATION
Today's
teens are being attacked by popular culture like no other generation.
Hollywood, the music industry, advertisers, and even the mainstream
media are using their arsenal of tools to win the battle for our teens'
hearts- and so far they are winning! In order to defeat our enemy, we
must know how it thinks and understand the weapons it uses. It is
critical that we realize how far-reaching the crisis is- and then we
must work together to stop it.
TELEVISION
This
generation views 16 to 17 hours of television each week and sees on
average 14,000 sexual scenes and references each year. That's more than
38 references every day.
INTERNET
This
generation spends three hours a day online and is the first to grow up
with point-and-click pornography. Almost 90 percent of teens have
viewed pornography online at one of the 300,000 adult websites, most
while doing homework.
MUSIC
More
than 25 percent of teen-targeted radio segments contain sexual content;
42 percent of the top selling CDs contain sexual content
ADVERTISING
With
more than $128 billion dollars in their pockets, this generation has
been targeted by corporate America, who does everything it can to grow
brands and profits without any regard to the moral decay of a
generation.
