Devlin, Maurice (2004) Sex, drugs and stereotypes. Equality News, Summer. pp. 17-19.

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“Three out of five 15 to 17 year-olds drink alcohol, youth poll finds.” “One in four 15 to 17 year-olds have had sex – poll.” “55% of young know of peer suicide attempts.” These were the headlines on the front page of The Irish Times on three consecutive days last September when the results of a ‘youth poll’ carried out by TNS MRBI on behalf of the newspaper were published. On each day, in addition to the front page ‘news’ story, a further two full pages were devoted to the poll’s findings. In keeping with the headlines, these two-page ‘spreads’ were, on the first and second days respectively, devoted entirely to drink/drugs and sexual behaviour. The third day’s spread dealt with a broader range of issues (health, media consumption, religion, politics) but obviously in much less depth. Taken as a whole, the thrust of the series was to portray young people as being in one way or another ‘problematic’.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Sex, Drugs, Stereotypes, Young people
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies
Item ID:	365
Depositing User:	Maurice Devlin
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2006
Journal or Publication Title:	Equality News
Publisher:	Equality Authority, Dublin
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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