Troubled Teens Resources

Teens at risk need to quit listening to rap. It is amazing that such guttural language and images are foisted on America’s youth with impunity. Indeed, millions of dollars are earned by artists who are proud of their criminal backgrounds, who write lyrics that perpetuate racism and teen age drug abuse and malign women at every possible opportunity.

Parents and responsible leaders are starting to make an effort to thwart the influence of this unfortunate musical genre. More and more studies reveal alarming findings, indicating that the troubled teenagers who listen to rap are setting themselves up for a fall.

“Teens who spend more time watching the sex and violence depicted in the “reel” life of “gangsta” rap music videos are more likely to practice these behaviors in real life, suggests one of the first studies to specifically explore how rap videos influence emotional and physical health.
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Over the course of the one-year study, they were:

• Three times more likely to hit a teacher
• Over 2.5 times more likely to get arrested
• Twice as likely to have multiple sexual partners
• 1.5 times more likely to get a sexually transmitted disease, use drugs, or drink alcohol.

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Each generation has listened to music that was considered to be destructive at the time and similar warnings were issued. It can be suggested that the parents of today’s teens, as frequently evident in the boomer generations’ surfeit of dysfunctional parents, were also led astray by their generation’s musical influences. The jury that will decide these questions with any objectivity will be far in the future, when the final price that the 60’s “cultural revolution’s” cost America will have been calculated.

Meanwhile, instead of rockers, rappers are busy ruining a new generation.