Setting aside all the usual caveats about methodology and statistics, this smells fishy to me.
For one thing, as my colleague Mike Bruno points out, correlation is not causation.
Moreover, as the Reuters article notes, teen pregnancy rates have been on the decline since 1991.
Shouldnt we be seeing a rise in teen pregnancies, then?
One thing that does seem anecdotally true is that TV offers kids mixed messages about sex.
(Sex is HOTTT, but dont have it until youre married, after which, its NOTTT.
Premarital sex can lead to disease and pregnancy, although few characters ever seem to face such consequences.
Safe sex means wearing a condom, although no one on TV ever seems to put one on.
