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Ashley Murray Jill Waltz

How have our role models predetermined our kid’s future by influence?

Children's actions are the reflection of their role models' influence.

The messages within popular music are promoting alcohol, drug use, violence, and casual sex. This is influencing youth toward these illegal and immoral activities, which have lead to addiction, teen pregnancy, and juvenile criminal offences. Kids are pushed toward these lifestyles due to lack of beneficial parenting, which has become harder and harder over the course of the sexual revolution. This is because divorce has become increasingly common, leaving children to raise themselves, and to make misguided decisions.

By artists coming out with songs that talk about smoking weed and drinking alcohol, they are influencing kids to as well because they look up to those artists as role models. "Artists should be careful of their lyrics because music has an impact on the mind, spirit, soul and body. Due to lyrics that are vulgar and sexual, many young people's minds have been corrupted resulting in kids becoming more involved in illegal activities and possibly contracting STDS". (Michael Chanda.) The influence on kids and teens' behavior is very widespread throughout the country.

INTERVIEW: everyday teenager who listens to a lot of rap Topic : music's influence Questions : When you listen to explicit music on a regular basis do you think it effects you? Do you think teens would be as involved with alcohol, sex, and drugs if they didn't hear about or see other people doing it on a daily basis? Do you think that the influence is a problem? Do you think music should be censored?

MEDIA: SLIDES OF INAPPROPRIATE MUSIC VIDEOS FLASHING TO SHOW THE SPECIFIC INFLUENCES THAT CHILDREN SEE IN MUSIC AND LYRICS.

The sexual revolution evolved from numerous conflicts and disagreements. The 50s and 60s signals a dramatic change in American society; it was the breaking free from the traditional, conservative ideas of the early century. The youth revolution in Britain was one cause of this. "As the youth revolution matured, an emphasis on being single, having fun, and enjoying freedom from responsibilities emerged." (Bailey) But, trend of lack in responsibility led to an even greater rebel on the conservatives. It began with The Pill. The Pill changed women's lives not only scientifically, but how they were looked at by society. The immorality of every generation is worsening because children mimic what is displayed by their parents. Their mothers acquired equal rights during the sexual revolution, but this was because of the exponential immorality they displayed over the course of generations.

MEDIA: SLIDES OF PICTURES SHOWING A TIMELINE STARTING IN THE 1960S UP TO NOW. THE PICTURES WILL BE OF FASHION, TEEN ALCOHOLIC USE, DOING THINGS THAT WERE SHOWN IN THE PREVIOUS MUSIC VIDEOS.

Children with divorced parents tend to be insecure and lack self-confidence. The kids often deny these mentalities, so they aren't visible to others. Often, they don't ask for help. Over time, these insecurities can make the kids vulnerable to anger, depression, revenge, alcohol, crimes, drugs etc., more so than kids with a traditional family. Therefore the mother's lack of interest or inability to give their kids as much attention as possible can end up negatively affecting them. The sexuality of these divorced women can lead to a display of unhealthy relationship handling that sets a standard for their kids. This is why the sexual revolution has made sex more common for every generation. If people became more aware of this, children could be protected from these influences, and prevent kids from growing up too fast.

INTERVIEW: Che Reilly Topic : Divorce Questions: How often do you think you were left alone as a child due to divorced parents? Do you think this opened you up to opportunities that negatively influenced you because your parents weren't around? How do you wish you could have changed the situations?

MEDIA: VIDEO OF CHILDREN FOLLOWING THEIR PARENTS SHOWING THAT THEY ARE THEIR ROLE MODELS.

The sexual revolution is the reason why sex became so common among adults, especially women. It was eventually promoted to youth through music. With a lack of parental supervision, children can be exposed to explicit media too early, which is why some children are forced to grow up too fast.

Problem: "Popular music may contribute to early sex. Music is an integral part of teens' lives. The average youth listens to music 1.5 to 2.5 hours per day. Sexual themes are common in much of this music and range from romantic and playful to degrading and hostile"(Ralph J. Clemente.) When teens are constantly exposed to the explicit themes in songs, they begin to become immune to the ideas and think they are acceptable. (Olson, Kristian David.) The idea is pretty simple, people's behavior is linked to what they are exposed to daily (CBC News).

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Just because somebody doesn't want to be influenced by negative messages in music doesn't mean that they won't be. Rap culture is everywhere. It's on the radio, on TV, and on the Internet. And it is influencing kids and teens. "Mainstream culture is becoming more crude, and it's getting harder to keep the sordid stuff in the margins." Basically these artists think if a rapper makes an explicit mix-tape that could possibly have a negative influence, it's not their fault that teens listen to it. If you want to listen to it, you can. But really, Because of advances in technology, rappers shouldn't release extremely crude mix tapes because of their availability. It may be illegal to restrict musicians' freedom of speech, but it isn't illegal to censor their songs or say they can't be released to the public.

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Should children go to an after school care if they have working parents? Darcy Olson, from SIRS Discoverer believes that after school programs are just a way for the government to increase their investments from schools. She doesn't think that after-school cares have an impact on the kids worth counting. "No more than 12% of children aged five through 12 ever care for themselves, and those who do are alone for about one hour a day average" (Olson).

MEDIA: KIDS IN SCHOOL AND WHERE THEY GO AFTER.

Do you know where your kids could be after school? Leaving them alone forces them to grow up too fast. The majority of schools that don't provide after-school daycare and usually the ones who can't afford it. Isn't it these less wealthy areas who have higher crime, drug and alcohol use rates within teens? After-school care keeps all children out of trouble. "The after-school hours are the time when juvenile crime hits its peak.” Being in an after school program protects younger children of being in danger of criminal activity, along with becoming part of the criminal activity.

MEDIA: MAP OF PLACES WHERE KIDS LEFT ALONE RELATED TO CRMINAL-OFFENCES, ALC., ETC., ARE MOST COMMON. MEDIA: PICTURES OF THESE AREAS.

"If we are to attain real peace in this world, we are going to have to begin with the children." ~Gandhi

To prepare our kids for the real world, it is up to us to give them day care so they are never alone when away from their parents, and preserve their innocence by restricting negatively influential music. The resulting effect of the sexual and music revolution over the course of the last 50 years has ended up being less beneficial to Americans than it has been completely degrading of our morals and traditions. The sexual revolution led to acceptance of sex in society and women's freedom, which led to vulgar lyrics and the corruption of traditional families. This later led to children being left alone at home, susceptible to the negative messages promoted by music.

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they had nothing to do with it." ~Haim Ginott

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