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US 13-year-olds are fairly conservative: Time poll
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jul 31, 2005 07:46pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, August 1, 2005 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It might surprise their parents, but in the age of graphic lyrics and violent video games, American children entering their teens remain very cautious about sex and dating and still trust their parents and church.
In a story on the lives and thinking of American 13-year-olds, Time magazine reports that sixty percent of the 500 surveyed by the magazine are against sex before marriage, and 63 percent believe they are too young to date at their age.
The 21-page cover feature characterizes kids at 13 as "backstage adults" in a particularly precarious formative period.
"It is the age of childhood leaning forward and adulthood holding back, when the world gets suddenly closer, the colors more vivid, the rules subject to never ending argument," writes Time editor Nancy Gibbs.
If anything is surprising in Time's feature, it is how normal and conservative -- in a day of provocative music videos, widespread Internet access, and lurid cable television shows -- today's 13 year olds are. |
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