"Here at the Jersey Shore, we’re none too fond of the way MTV’s reality show 'Jersey Shore' portrays our generally bucolic region as a mecca for teenage and young adult hedonism. Now, along comes the
Parents Television Council (PTC) with
a report that says its portrayals of females, along with those on the network’s other youth-oriented reality shows, are overwhelmingly negative."
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Christine A. Scheller, Urban Faith 
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I've watched some episodes and I agree. Some young moms struggle...they have still not moved to a beginning maturity (some of these have obviously immature parents) ...others seem to grow to adulthood...and start making adult level choices.
But we were told in earlier decades how too early sex damages girls...Find a copy of "Reviving Ophelia" the 1990s bestseller about a woman's experience in professionally counseling (and observing) girl teens involved in too-early sexual activity. She did not seem to be religious...but just reported how such experiences seemed to destroy the inner self and the joy these girls had in earlier childhood.
(Here I add my comment "DUH! Ya Think???)
Not against the wise woman's observations in "Reviving Ophelia"..but to people who are surprised that treating girls, women as throwaway consumable items will NOT damage their inner selves (not to mention put them at higher risk for various diseases later on).
The dualism on women hits the first time you turn on the Internet. Young women supposedly get power from exposing their bodies...yet women still strive (overall) to be recognized as serious adults in the school and workplace.
It's a world with much contempt for women...and we have to teach both our daughters and our sons "What would Jesus do" here!!!