Steve Lopez's Essay: A Scary Time To Raise A Daughter

When I was in high school we had a religion class; one day the teacher asked if we wanted our kids to turn out like us and I was the only one to raise their hand. The reason why is because I’ve always been very independent and never cared what others thought of me and I knew the difference between good and bad. Yes, I did had times where I would be influenced by others, but as I grew I realized if it was even worth being someone who was not truly me. It’s sad to know that in the United States by the age of eighteen, 61% of teens are not virgins anymore. Peer pressure has a great impact on this because those who remain virgins in high school are seen as “the losers”, and no one wants to be called like that. When you are a teenager the only thing you worry about is being what society named “popular”. That is the society kids are growing in today and no matter how much you teach them at home, they spend most of the time at school being influenced to do certain things by others. Teenagers should be taught how to be independent, to respect your own decisions no matter what …show more content…
Turn around and look carefully the billboards, ads, magazine covers or even in a clothing store. In the essay “A Scary Time to Raise a Daughter” by Steve Lopez, Lopez tells us that since he had a baby girl recently, he has been more aware of everything that surrounds her and there were things that concerned him such as kids not being independent enough to be brave and defend your own decision. Everything around tells us that we as woman should have a good, skinny body and be good looking or else you are not worth it. Many famous people who appear in the ads, tv and magazines don 't realize that kids learn from them and they agree in being part of the media. They don 't realize that “The message is, you should be a sexual object” (par. 27), and that is not something you want to teach kids because in what type of world would we be living if everyone thinks like