Just look at how many sports channels are including women. Having a woman as a host is Kool -- Heck, I enjoy it. But, Sex sells and every producer seems to be employing that tactic and Commercials are worse. Look at the Go-Daddy commercial for the super bowl.
I am not complaining -- trust me. But the issue is that kids are seeing this along with hearing the lyrics and watching the videos in the Music Industry -- and that is not good.
We have to figure out how to focus on occupying our youth's time and energy in a positive manner in order to attract them away from the influences that are detrimental.
A week ago, I saw something I thought was interesting. While at the playground with my daughter, I saw two girls - 11 and 12 years old. They were having a ton of fun swingng, sliding, climbing running on the same playground and my daughter was chasing them. I thought to myself -- it was good to see that at that age, they were still little girls at heart.
That's why I say that we need to create a State-of-the-Art Rec Center with enough facilities that will attract and occupy the time of our youth and allow for adults to interact with them as role models. Kids would much rather have fun all day and even not even eat or drink water if you let them to the point of exhaustion. But if we keep allowing for "idle minds", the devil's workshop will be in full production mode.
Rob Ramson.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, KPW <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:
When I saw Tyler Perry's movie "Temptation", I thought of how people are drawn to the flash and glamour that others possess that they are willing to sacrifice their life's principles and values to belong. They will take drugs to be in the life with the goods they cannot afford. Folks can become drawn to those that can produce what they want and they are willing to do anything for it to belong to the group. Women and even men are willing to parade themselves as something they are not and their lives become a nightmare. They are not careful and do not understand or recognize the mind games. While some think they are the hunter they become the prey.
Rob, you mentioned the influence of television. I noticed how many serial killer type shows there are on TV (I watch them all); e.g., Criminal Minds, Hannibal, Cult, The Following, CSI, and so forth. We've gotten a long way from Touched by an Angel, Highway to Heaven, and The Cosby Family. I imagine that there is a correlation (if not causation) with what is on TV and our society. Does art imitate life or life imitate art? There are or were more occult-scary type movies, which are off now, but which I watched: 666 Park Avenue and Zero Hour.
People watch so much television and individuals may get so lonely that they are drawn to negative influences. We have to strengthen the minds of our young people. Sex on TV is portrayed as if there is no meaning to it and casual, unprotected sex is a great thing. I read an article that young people weren't "hooking up" so casually as they were in the past. Well, that's my sermon for the day.
KPW
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Subject: Re: [ward5] Teens having babies in D.C. need more than tal By Colbert I. King, Apr 05, 2013 11:29 PM EDT The Washington PostFriday, April 5, 7:29 PM
Good Morning,Yes. Teens having babies are an issue. Teens getting abortions are an issue. Teens having sex are an issue. 11 year old having sex and abortions are an issue. This goes to the paradigm shift that has occurred because of poverty, television's focus on sex marketing, music and clothing designers leading this shift to profitability. This doesn't discount parenting but a few generations of teen (kids) having kids in this drug and sex environment makes this a reasonable expectation or reality -- not justifying it.I would think that identifying these numbers lends to the urgency of the focus that was being discussed in the Colbert King's article which had much more of a focus of teen pregnancy and being promiscuous -- thus would be inclusive of the other variables to be reconciled.Thanks Mrs. KPW for adding the "Miscarriages". And Sam, thanks for asking.By the way, if folks don't know this already, there are lots of grown men and boys out there introducing young girls to sex in exchange for goods or money. That is a huge issue but when we have athletes and other marketing efforts to encourage kids to spend/buy things that make them Kool and popular or just even accepted into social groups. In foreign countries, this is a behavior that is extremely abused when it comes to young girls from impoverished families and we have not really started to focus on this.DCPS -- the paradigm has shifted -- 8 hours a day, 180 days of a year, we need to be most incorporating of the social issues that are introducing this level of deviance and criminal behavior. This might just be better than Foreign Language and European History -- that's where the focus of Development of Self, Pride, Goal Setting, Motivation comes into play. These kids are not having a conversation about Aristotle, Napoleon, Gangis Khan, Greek Mythology, etc.Rob Ramson
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:34 AM, KPW <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:
Though the question was addressed to Rob, let me add my thinking since I asked the same question at first. The rate of abortions would give a true barometer of the rate of pregnancies. Those that are getting abortions might not be included in the pregnancy count. Miscarriages neither. I don't know how the statistics are kept and monitored.
KPW
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Subject: RE: [ward5] Teens having babies in D.C. need more than tal By Colbert I. King, Apr 05, 2013 11:29 PM EDT The Washington PostFriday, April 5, 7:29 PM
Rob, why does Mr. King need to report the number of abortions? Can you explain?
Thanks,
Sam in Stronghold
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 01:27:55 -0400
Subject: Re: [ward5] Teens having babies in D.C. need more than tal By Colbert I. King, Apr 05, 2013 11:29 PM EDT The Washington PostFriday, April 5, 7:29 PM
What Colbert King needs to report on are the number of young girls having abortions from age 18 and under to 11. Also, he needs to focus on the sexual active #'s and the sex trade that is occuring. The statistics don't end at the 879 that actually give birth. Those complete set of #s will be indicative of where we are.Rob Ramson
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:18 PM, KPW <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:
- Colbert I. King
- Opinion Writer
Teens having babies in D.C. need more than tal
By Colbert I. King,
Three years ago, candidates for mayor and the D.C. Council crisscrossed the city, telling voters how they would bring progress and prosperity to District residents. That same year, 73 D.C. infants died, including 51 who never reached their 30th day of life, according to city health department data.
What's more, in 2010, 16 girls under the age of 15 gave birth. That was an improvement over 2009, when 26 children younger than 15 had babies. But, in election-year 2010, a total of 951 girls ages 15 to 19 had babies.
If candidates spoke about this crisis on the campaign trail, they must have been speaking under their breath.
This year's candidates are no better. Six people aiming for a permanent at-large seat on the council are popping up at candidate forums to tout their ability to solve the city's fundamental problems.
Still missing on the campaign trail is any serious discussion about the 879 girls who gave birth in 2011 and the large concentration of teen births in Wards 7 and 8, the city's most impoverished wards.
In 2011 alone, 508 teen births were recorded in those two wards — home to Mayor Vincent Gray and council member Marion Barry, respectively.
But teen pregnancy isn't just an election-year issue. It is, or should be, an issue for every elected official and city resident. The problem hits our quality of life and our wallets.
"A one-way ticket to poverty" is the way Brenda Rhodes Miller, executive director of the DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, once described the problem.
Teen pregnancy drives our welfare rolls and the rates of high-school dropouts and graduation.
Children who eventually end up abused, neglected, abandoned and living as wards of the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency or the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services are more likely to have been born to teen mothers.
Some of us have been beating this drum for years. The consequences of teen pregnancy are enormous: shattered families, broken lives, disrupted classrooms, overwhelmed social services, crowded court dockets and more. I'll keep beating the drum because we have the ability to do something. What's missing is the will.
Many people ask: Are the District's teen birth numbers above the national average because girls living east of the Anacostia River are having more sex? Research says that's not it.
Teenage girls in Wards 7 and 8 are not having babies because they are more promiscuous than teenagers in, say, the more prosperous Ward 3, which recorded two teen births in 2010 and none in 2011. Teens in Wards 7 and 8 do, however, have something in common with teenage girls in Mississippi and other parts of the country where teen birth rates are higher than the national average: They all can be found near the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
Researchers Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland at College Park and Phillip Levine of Wellesley College published a study underscoring the fact that "girls living in lower socio-economic circumstances are more likely than their wealthier peers to become pregnant."
Life lived in poverty is neither uplifting nor overflowing with meaning, they found. For some girls, a quiet despair takes over. And with that, an emptiness, which for some is filled by turning to motherhood.
Okay, you can debate that explanation. Or dismiss the study as just another excuse for bad behavior. Or you can use this column as one more reason to knock young male fathers and irresponsible parents. Blame teen pregnancy on the Great Society, liberalism, the '60s, or President Obama (he's blamed for everything else, anyway).
But what we should be talking about is the need to do something about babies having babies. Pregnancy prevention ought to be one of our top priorities. Teenage girls and boys, disadvantaged and well-off, should have access to sex education and contraception, abstinence counseling and the like.
And, as the researchers contend, "with improved economic opportunities, reduced poverty, and improved prospects for other adult outcomes, teen pregnancy would also decline."
Which is why this election year, along with the budgeting taking place in the Wilson Building, is important.
Or shall we just keep talking past the problem?
Read more from Colbert King's archive.
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