Healthy Teenage Relationships In Australia

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Healthy teenage relationships

Do you really believe our Australian teenagers should be receiving misguided information through TV shows about unhealthy romantic relationships? Dear Home and Away producers, children and teens are watching TV shows which causes them to believe that real-life relationships are exactly the same as what the media portrays them to be. But in reality, are they?

TV shows and popular media often give the wrong idea about romantic relationships, for example, in Life with Boys,'the characters often date for reputation, meaning they want to look good and the boy always has to ask the girl out. Also, the relationships are only heterosexual. The characters also start dating quite young, which is unhealthy. The media often

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