Why Americans Fear The Wrong Things Why are so many fears profuse in todays society, and so many of them unproven? People are so easily persuaded by media that they are vicarious in their thoughts. People cant conform to the fact or truth in a situation because media has played such a vast role in humanity. I have chosen the chapter on Monster Moms. In the following paragraphs I will show how easily mankind is influenced by these means of misleading media in correlation to the text on Monster Moms. On countless occasions in the past, well-known liberals including Jesse Jackson, Joyceln Elders, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan and conservatives such as Dan Quayle and Bill Bennett all blamed teen moms for destroying civilization. Journalists referred to young motherhood as a cancer and forewarned that they breed criminals faster than society can jail them. Stephen Caldas, a policy analyst, wrote in an educational research journal that, the lower the education levels of mothers who began childbearing as teenagers translates into lower work force productivity and diminished wages, resulting in a weaker, less competitive economy. Basically he was saying that you could hold teen moms responsible for Americas decreasing position in the world economy. I disagree along with the author of The Culture Of Fear, by Barry Glassner. These allegations are absurd. Women do not have the capacity to destroy America. Teen moms are not responsibly for the decline in Americas position in the world economy but the decline in Americas position in the world economy is responsibly for teen pregnancy. Children who are enrolled in poor schooling do not have the opportunity to acquire a respectable, high-class, noble job. Therefore, they have fewer motives to delay sex or practice contraception. Preexisting circumstances are a main issue in dealing with this problem. In a study at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex and Americas teenager, completed in ...
