{"id":1044,"date":"2008-11-07T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2008-11-07T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T17:26:00","slug":"what-would-we-do-without-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"What Would We Do Without Studies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They spent money on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/HEALTH\/11\/03\/teen.pregnancy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sexual content on television is strongly associated with teen pregnancy, a new study from the RAND Corporation shows.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the nonprofit organization found that adolescents with a high level of exposure to television shows with sexual content are twice as likely to get pregnant or impregnate someone as those who saw fewer programs of this kind over a period of three years. It is the first study to demonstrate this association, RAND said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Next week, RAND comes out with their study that gravity leads to falling.<\/p>\n<p>The suggested remedy is equally obvious.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A central message from the study is that there needs to be more dialogue about sex in the media, particularly among parents and their children, said Anita Chandra, the study&#8217;s lead author and a behavioral scientist at RAND.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the Hollywood culture is certainly a major contributor to the oversexualization of the media (and they could do their part, but won&#8217;t, and will whine publicly and loudly if you suggest they do), parents still need to be the gatekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>As my kids would say, &quot;Thank you, Captain Obvious!&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They spent money on this? Sexual content on television is strongly associated with teen pregnancy, a new study from the RAND Corporation shows. Researchers at the nonprofit organization found that adolescents with a high level of exposure to television shows with sexual content are twice as likely to get pregnant or impregnate someone as those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,22,23,25,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-doug","category-media","category-movies","category-music","category-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}