Childhood Enemies
Undoubtedly, adolescence is one of life's most challenging and complex transitions in life. A combination of rapid physical, cognitive, and psychosocial growth represents a period of significant change. These changes bridge the transition from childhood to adulthood. Teenagers today live in a media-saturated society and they deal with a bouquet of formidable issues like sex, drugs, divorce, and gun violence. These conditions can become significant factors in an emerging personality (Doherty, 1997). How do these circumstances influence young people who are searching for the roles and values that will guide them all their lives? The primary goal of this paper is to reveal the influences of technology and social environments experienced during early to middle adolescence that contribute to shaping adult personality. By the end of the high school years, young people have developed a unique mixture of characteristics that appear to have a profound influence on their adult personality (Doherty, 1997). How these life shaping individual characteristics come about, however, remains a central focus of developmental interest. Certainly, an individual's genetic endowment plays a sign
Doherty, William. (1997). The Intentional Family: How to Build Family Ties in Our Modern World. New York: Addison-Wesley. Tanner, James M. (1991). Growth Spurt, Adolescent. In Richard M. Lerner, Ann C. Peterson, & Is it realistic to think that children are going to be impervious to the murder and killing and cruelty they watch seven hours a day on TV? (Berry, 1993). Can we really believe the TV program directors who claim there is no hard scientific evidence to show a correlation between violence and immorality in our society and the graphic scenes they choose to show on the television screen -- and then quote hard scientific evidence to show how much a twenty second advertisement will impact the behavior of the viewers? Is it reasonable to think that young adults exposed to a visual and emotional TV diet of sexual pleasuring can grow up with anywhere near a realistic or holistic sense of the principles that create a good, enduring relationships and a happy life? (Berry, 1996). "It's a process of gradual desensitization," according to Berry. "These powerful cultural forces fundamentally alter our moral or ethical sense of what is in fact, right. People begin to think of social values as principles and call 'bad' and 'good' 'bad.' The airwaves get polluted with filth. The static makes it difficult to get a clear message from radio control."
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