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“Got Kids? Get Facts!” is the parent program for180 Degrees that presents the startling reality of sex and today’s youth.  This seminar is perfect for parents of children of ANY age, teachers, pastors, youth workers, or any person who comes in contact with teenagers.  This presentation includes: staggering statistics about today’s teens’ struggle with sexuality, the media’s influence, empowering teens to live in purity, and breaking down some of your own misconceptions.  (You know, a lot has changed!)  These seminars will conclude with a question and answer session that will hopefully target specific issues in your community or home.  Bringing up abstinent youth is a job for the whole community and now is the time for us to come together to combat this issue that has been swept under the rug for far too long…so GET THE FACTS!

Here is a preview of some of the information that “Got Kids, Get Facts” offers:

Three Influences to Being Sexually Active 

1.  Media

• 61% of teens say they get “a lot” of info about sex from entertainment media.
• Children see 10,000 sexual images each year, and that is just primetime TV.  By the time they are 18, they have been exposed to 180,000 sexual images!
• Movies:
• CNN reports that 80% of all R-rated movies target children under 17.  (John King, CNN.com, September 2000.) 
• Television
• More than 2/3 of all television programs deal with sexual content.  (CNN.com, February 2001.)
• Only 9% of shows deal with the risk of sex.
• Average teen watches over 17 hrs of TV per week.  (by graduation a teen has spent more hours in front of the TV than in school)
• Music
• 85% of the teenagers between the ages of 13 to 16 can buy music with explicit lyrics.  (John King, CNN.com, September 2000.) 
• Video Games
• Example:  Grand Theft Auto.  Players are awarded points for stealing cars and having sex with prostitutes and beating them afterwards.  
• Magazines
• Cosmo girl, Teen
• Example:  Seventeen has a “Sex Q and A”
• Clothing Lines
• Abercrombie & Fitch
• In the recent Christmas Field Guide these quotes were found…
• “a pleasant and super safe alternative to [group sex] is group masturbation.” (referred to as “Jack and Jill Offs.”)
• Their sexpert in response to the question about “sex for three” said, “those readers who are willing to go down on a date [oral sex] at the movies is OK just as long as you do not disturb those around you.”
•  Internet
• 95% of teens go online
• Boys and girls aged 12-17 is the largest category of internet pornography users.   
• 70% of teens have accidentally come across pornography.
• If you need more assistance with movie or lyric reviews and/or internet blockers, then use our Useful Links Page.

2.  Peer Pressure
A main social need of teens is to be accepted; they fear rejection.  Many teens feel pressured into sex just to fit in.  Both boys and girls can feel pressure from peers to become sexually active.

• Jr. high sororities
• EXPECTATION of sex.
• Some say 10th grade is the “coming out” year…

3.  Alcohol/Drugs/”Partying”

• Getting drunk and having sex are seen as rites of passage from childhood into adulthood. 
• Studies show that teens that drink are 7 times more likely to have sex than those who don’t drink.  (Kaiser Family Foundation, Fast Fact Sheet, February 2002.) 
• Researchers believe that 75% of all first-time sexual encounters between teenagers involve alcohol.  (Alcohol and Sex:  Human Relations Media, Inc., 1998.)

If you missed some of the information from the seminar, please take advantage of STEPS TO RAISING ABSTINET TEENS