The documentary of The Lost Children of Rockdale County was about a syphilis outbreak back in 1996 that happened in an urban area of Atlanta Georgia. The outbreak affected over 200 teenagers. Parents did not know that their children were getting involved in premarital sex, group sex, drinking and taking drugs. Without this outbreak of syphilis, the community of Rockdale would have not known that their children were behaving deviant.
While watching this documentary, I was shock at how young the teenagers were when engaging sex and doing drugs. This tends to happen due to lack of supervision from parents. Since lack of supervision isn’t always by choice but due to jobs and other responsibilities, I think parents should not be legally responsible …show more content…
The statistics of people having sex in reality that was cover in our textbook could also be seen in this film. We know that most people have premarital sex before marriage by age 17, and that half of the hook ups that happen are unprotected sex. In the film, a lot of the teenagers were explaining how everyone or at least people they know are having sex. Some are having sex by age 13. Another concept is how media does not depict reality, one scene in the film was how a group of kids watched playboy and the game was whatever they watched they then have to act out what they (the playboy) are doing. I also feel like the kids who had a lot of sex maybe had avoidance attachment style. In the book, avoidance attachment style people have less romantic partners to have sex with, and more casual sex. Another point on how the children of this county had syphilis and lots of sex is their sex education program. Their sex education is focus on abstinence and 7th graders pledge to stay a virgin. We know from our textbook it mentioned how most kids deny making this pledge by just a year later and abstinence programs do not work. Abstinence programs actually show teenagers having less protected sex with unwanted pregnancies. I noticed the concept on how most satisfied sex is when
While watching this documentary, I was shock at how young the teenagers were when engaging sex and doing drugs. This tends to happen due to lack of supervision from parents. Since lack of supervision isn’t always by choice but due to jobs and other responsibilities, I think parents should not be legally responsible …show more content…
The statistics of people having sex in reality that was cover in our textbook could also be seen in this film. We know that most people have premarital sex before marriage by age 17, and that half of the hook ups that happen are unprotected sex. In the film, a lot of the teenagers were explaining how everyone or at least people they know are having sex. Some are having sex by age 13. Another concept is how media does not depict reality, one scene in the film was how a group of kids watched playboy and the game was whatever they watched they then have to act out what they (the playboy) are doing. I also feel like the kids who had a lot of sex maybe had avoidance attachment style. In the book, avoidance attachment style people have less romantic partners to have sex with, and more casual sex. Another point on how the children of this county had syphilis and lots of sex is their sex education program. Their sex education is focus on abstinence and 7th graders pledge to stay a virgin. We know from our textbook it mentioned how most kids deny making this pledge by just a year later and abstinence programs do not work. Abstinence programs actually show teenagers having less protected sex with unwanted pregnancies. I noticed the concept on how most satisfied sex is when