Television and Adolescents: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Television and other media represent an important and widely unrecognized influence on adolescent behavior in American society. This article is a review of the major media to which teenagers are heavily exposed-television, movies, radio, print media, and pornography. The potential concerns of practitioners and parents and society as a whole are emphasized and some solutions suggested.

publication date

  • January 1, 1990