From The Archives - December 9, 2003

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36035

• In the UK, one teenage girl in 10 aged 16-19 has the sexually transmitted disease, chlamydia, which can make women infertile.

• One quarter of 15- and 16-year-olds smoke.

• At least one in five 13- to 16-year-olds is overweight or obese.

• Eleven percent of 11- to 15-year-olds reported having used drugs in the previous month.

"Young people in Britain are increasingly likely to be overweight, indulge in binge drinking, have a sexually transmitted infection and suffer mental health problems," said Dr. Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, according to a report in the London Telegraph.

From The Archives - March 4, 2004

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37419

Scene from Santa Monica school's play on "Gay Odyssey."

Behrman is faculty adviser for a campus "gay-straight" group called FLAG, Friends of Lesbians and Gays, which staged a theater production called "Everything Possible: A Gay Odyssey." Focusing on the "coming out journey" of a 15-year-old student, it was written and performed by many straight students who acted as homosexuals. The play included a scene of two boys kissing. The emotional response of seventh graders to the production apparently was the catalyst for the start of middle-school gay-straight alliance.

           "Ratings creep" is another way of saying, "moral decline."

http://www.freep.com/entertainment/movies/ratings25e_20050225.htm

Ratings let more raunch reach teens

In another, a man seriously considers killing somebody, and then does.

They are also cited by some Hollywood observers and critics as examples of what is called ratings creep, the belief that over the years more questionable, affecting and offensive material has made its way into movies available to kids just reaching their teens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_en_tv/tv_body_count

During the last week of September, there were 63 dead bodies visible during prime time on the six broadcast networks. That's up sharply from the 27 bodies counted during the same week in 2004.

This year, channel surfers in that one week could spot:

• The lead character in Fox's "Bones" discovering a badly decomposed body hanging in a tree, crows picking on the remains. The maggot-covered head falls off and lands in Bones' hands.

• A man preparing dinner on the WB's "Supernatural" when his sink suddenly fills with water. He reaches in and something grabs him, pulls his head in the water and drowns him.

• On CBS' "CSI: NY," a man falling after trying to climb the outside of a skyscraper. He hits a ledge, and a large chunk of bloody flesh falls to the street.

• A driver speeding up to hit a woman coming out of the clinic on NBC's "Inconceivable." She's shown hitting the windshield, flying through the air and lying on the ground with blood dripping from her mouth and nose.

• The victim of an auto-erotic asphyxiation on CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

Then there's the gunshot victim with blood spurting from his chest, the man screaming as he's being burned alive, the murdered woman whose eyes had been removed and eyelids stitched shut and the medical examiner using pliers to pull a diamond from a dead man's chest.

You get the idea.

           "Jack Scarisbrick, chairman of the charity group Life, said: "The Government is relentlessly pressuring young people to be even more sexually active. There are some school nurses who are not allowed to give out aspirin or put plasters on children without their parents' permission. But they can whisk a young girl off for an abortion without her parents' knowledge. This condones, if not encourages, promiscuity and sexual activity."

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49438

Every campus to get
birth-control nurse
New 'sexual health' scheme bypasses parents
with secret pregnancy tests, pills, abortions

Sue Axom, a mother-of-five who recently lost her court battle to change the law allowing girls under 16 to have abortions without their parents' knowledge, told the London Daily Mail, "This is undermining the role of parents. I believe this will encourage children to have under-age sex. It will put even more pressure on young girls as boys can say, 'It doesn't matter, you can get the morning-after pill.' I do believe it's beyond the pale if these services go to primary schools. I imagine we will see the abortion age going down and down."

Jack Scarisbrick, chairman of the charity group Life, said: "The Government is relentlessly pressuring young people to be even more sexually active. There are some school nurses who are not allowed to give out aspirin or put plasters on children without their parents' permission. But they can whisk a young girl off for an abortion without her parents' knowledge. This condones, if not encourages, promiscuity and sexual activity."