| Many of today's talk shows are tearing down family values and corrupting our children. Parents sit around speculating why their fourteen year-old sons are taking drugs and being arrested for stealing. And they can't seem to figure out why their little twelve and thirteen year-old daughters are sexually promiscuous and becoming pregnant. Perhaps they can begin to answer some of these questions by first taking a look at what their children are viewing on television. |
| There are various self-indulgent talk shows contaminating the minds of their viewers. These shows often depict adult men and women viciously squabbling over members of the opposite sex. The uncouth people on these shows are drowning in profanity. Jerry Springer hosts one such show that is devaluing the decency of its viewers. Not only do the guests on his show curse and make threats to one another, but also it is not unusual for a woman to bare her posterior for the audience. This particular show, as do most, targets adults, although numerous adolescents are not only exposed to the vulgarity, but watch intently. |
| While the mainstream of talk shows involves only adults, there are some that devalues teenagers as well. The Maury show, for one, has adolescents on his show partaking in DNA testing to find out who the biological father of a young girl's baby is. Often, the teenage mother will be seated before an audience weeping with fear and humility, while the proposed father and his new girlfriend are laughing and cursing at her. The language and gestures produced by these youngsters is utterly repulsive. |
| Jenny Jones is the host of yet another talk show that degrades adolescents. The youngsters appearing on this show are usually disrespectful, rebellious, and totally out of control. There are frequently young boys on this show that lash out violently against their own mothers as well as staying out late, stealing, and participating in gangs. Likewise, there are an abundance of out-of-hand females, usually dressed in skimpy clothing and not ashamed to admit that they are sexually active. Parents seem to have absolutely no control over these kids. |
| Today's young generation is being exposed to and educated with the filthiest, most tasteless, and corruptible acts imaginable. They are being desensitized to all the things that the generations before them have been taught were morally wrong. How can an honest society claim that they care so much about children, all the while divulging them in a mockery of pure moral values on national television? |
| Talk Shows: Corruption of the New Generation |
| October 21, 2002 |
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