Truth and Reality Compete For Teen Hearts

TV today has pushed the line more and more on what is being shown. Not only has cable and dish service channels pushed the limit but so has the major broadcast networks. Case in point, on the ABC show "Cougar Town", an episode was aired where it is was portrayed that the main character of the show (the mother) was preforming oral sex on someone she met at a bar and her son walks in and views what she is doing. "Gossip Girl" promotes sex (recently advertising a threesome), drugs and alcohol and even the older show "Friends" promotes sex before marriage and gives the viewpoint that it is OK for someone to have multiple sex partners and one night stands out of marriage and while married. Have you noticed the number of shows that now have a homosexual character?

The music industry has followed along also, with the ability of someone to sing no longer the main criteria for success, but rather what someone looks like, the (little) amount of clothes they wear on stage and in their videos, and that they sing about sex, death, drugs, suicide and living in the "real" world.

So do we have the attitude that "this is just reality today?" Click on the title bar for a good article by Bob Smithouser of Focus on the Family's Pluggedin Online regarding this topic.