The Dangers Of Raising Children

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Raising children is aready a difficult job, and the media does not made it any less difficult in fact thay have seem to make it harder than it has to be. The media has created an illusion in the younget generations head that women for sex and looking pretty (by any means) and are teaching our boys at a young age to treat when according to this logic. Reality TV puts nothing in a positive light not even relgion, it glorifies teen pregnancy, it teaches children that no one will love you if you are unatrractive but can become attractive for a small fee of course. They are not expressing the dangers of unprotected sex, promisicous sex, and drug use, instead they make it seem like this what your suppose to be doing with your life. There was

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