Teen-Agers and the Generation Gap

This is the first generation of young people who have been brought up by mass media. A Syracuse University study finds that the child has had between 3000 and 4000 hours of television viewing before entering the first grade. By the time he or she graduates from high school television-viewing hours have increased to 15000 in contrast to 11000 hours in the classroom. This generation of young people exposed to mass media programming with the stress on exploitive sexuality and violence has been differently molded than some of us more gently reared by school church and home. Our young people today are more experienced and knowledgeable than we were at their age. They are growing up in more of the world than we knew because of the wide travel and high mobility that they have known. They have far more social poise as well as more difficulty in certain areas of life. Their knowledge is greater because schools and parents are trying to do a better job. (excerpt)

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