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Teens are portrayed negatively in the media.

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Teens are almost always portrayed negatively in the news and hardly ever are recognized for something positive.

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Adults judge teens too quickly.

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Gender roles are forced through the media.

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88% of teens have been on the receiving end of a random act of kindness.  Of those students, 85% wanted to pass along the kindness to someone else.

96.5% of teens have performed a random act of kindness.

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Just because some teens do drugs or are involved in crime, does that mean the media gets to represent all teens that way?
Does the media have the right to label certain things/activities by genders?

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According to a recent poll  by Demos of more than 1,000 young people, 4/5 of fourteen to seventeen-year-olds think their age group isn't fairly and honestly represented by the media and 85% of them believe these stereotypes about teens affect their ability to be hired for a job.

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17-year-old Jacob Conley from Jacksonville, Fla. said "Adults think right away, 'Oh, that's just a teen; they don't know better' . They don't even give us a chance. Maybe they've forgotten that Bill Gates wrote his first program at age 13, and Joan of Arc was a young teen when she led the country of France. Adults are just too quick to judge."

16-year-old Michael Leathers agreed when he said "Teenagers are judged based on how you look versus what you have to say. Adults look at me like I'm some crazy person-- not really who I am on the inside."

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If you look up "teen" or "teenager" in the news, some of the headlines you'll see pop up are:

Teen Details Massacre Plot, Reveres Columbine Killer

Helena Teen Gets Suspended Sentence for Bomb Threats

Mayville Teen Arrested for Hosting Underage Drinking Party

Drugs, Heat and Alcohol Send Boston Concertgoers to the Hospital

Five Teenagers Charged With Murder in Woodbury Drug Overdose

Sutton Teen Admitted Possessing Drugs and a Knife in a Public Place

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Huffington Post article "Gender Roles in Media" states "Even on young children, gender roles are being pushed through advertisements."

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As reported by The Blog on Huffpost, "The negative news focused around teenagers drastically outweighs any positive news about them. In fact, out of this recent search, guess how many teens were in the public eye for something unrelated to crime, violence, arrest, death, or other trouble? Two."

"Good news stories about teens do exist, but they're "overshadowed by the ones that paint our youth to be violent, drug-addicted, alcohol-drinking delinquents" (Dunham).

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Gender roles don't have to affect a child's decision on what they do or want to buy // But teens feel pressured to follow stereotypes because that's how they're portrayed on their favorite shows or in their favorite book or movie. They'll want to be like their idol or favorite character, even if they're stereotypical.
Adults don't know when they see a teen if they're an addict or a troublemaker so they assume and take precaution // Only about .25% of teens are currently in jail or the juvenile justice system. The rest of the teen population doesn't need to be stereotyped or assumed to be reckless and be involved in crime.