First off I would like to discuss the schools policy of mandatory "volunteerism". By forcing a teenager to help others takes always the selflessness of volunteering to begin with. I would also like to point out that Community Service is used as a punishment to juvenile delinquents. This makes me believe that schools facilitate the mass’s belief that all teenagers are juvenile delinquents.

There’s a certain amount of nostalgia in the idea of drive-in movie theaters. This is most likely because of their huge popularity followed by a sudden decline. As you may or may not know, back in the olden days of the 50’s, one of the only places where teens could be private on dates was the drive in. This of course made it the Mecca of teen sexuality, but then the sexual revolution of the 1960’s kicked in. People were far more open about sex and didn’t need to go seclude themselves in their cars anymore. The drive-ins began to die out and now only a few remain.

The Media says violence on TV is the cause for teenage violence, who’s to say then that only the violence influences the teenage generation. Perhaps the rise of the sitcom, especially the ones directed at teenagers, in the last 20 to 25 years has given easily influenced younger children an unrealistic view on relationships which they carry on to later in life. One example of an unrealistic view on relationships is the former ABC show "Boy Meets World". The protagonist character Cori Matthews is in a long-term relationship with Topanga for whom he had been a friend with since early childhood. Throughout the entire run of the show, the only steady girlfriend of him is she and whenever they break up they get back together. Not to mention they are incredibly committed to each other yet they wait until after they are in college and until their honeymoon night to have sexual intercourse. That’s incredibly unrealistic and could lead to many possible outcomes. One of these outcomes could be a person looking for the perfect relationship as their first. Perfectionism sets in and they never obtain what they’re looking for. But by the time they realize this they may want to just jump in without thinking of the possible consequences just to catch up with others. This perfectionism may still set in and prevent them from trying to jump in at all of course as well. This leads to a difficult predicament. This person may feel that they would like to find another inexperienced person to pursue a relationship, once again limiting their options. This just leaves one possible answer for parents to do, and that is display a working relationship from which they children can base theirs on instead of television shows

Ideas to develop from this:

-Possibly develop a website devoted to unrealism in sitcoms, register domain as "antisit.com" as well as antisitcom.com

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