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7 CBS, “Morning News,” 7 June 2006.
8 Keith Naughton et al., “The Long and Grinding Road,” Newsweek, 1 May 2006; CBS, “Morning News,” 7 June 2006; Dr. James Wright, “Coping with Modern Road Rage Crisis,” Gold Coast Bulletin, 12 March 2008, p. 28.
9 OECD, “Society at a Glance, OECD Social Indicators,” Organisation for Economic and Cooperative Development, 2006; Catherine Saillant, “Testing the Bounds of MySpace,” Los Angeles Times, 8 April 2006.
10 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Child Maltreatment 2006, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm06/chapter3.htm#perp; Mike Males, “Two More Reasons To Believe Nothing about Teens on News at 6,” 20 November 2007, posted at YouthFacts.org.
11 Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor et al., “Online ’Predators’ and Their Victims,” American Psychologist, 63 (2008): 111-128.
12 Janis Wolak, Kimberly Mitchell, and David Finkelhor, “Online Victimization,” National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Alexandria, VA, 2006. And see Nancy Willard, “Stop internet fear-mongering,” posted at www.connectsafely.org.
13 Wolak, Finkelhor, “Online ‘Predators’”; “Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies,” Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, 2009, available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/.
14 Brad Stone, “Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown,” New York Times, 13 January 2009.
15 Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst et al., “Living and Learning with New Media,” MacArthur Foundation Report, November 2008.
16 See also, “Using YouTube as a Study Aid,” Associated Press, 15 December 2008.
17 Barry Glassner, “Forever Amber,” Wall Street Journal, 27 August 2002, p. D.8; “ National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children, NISMART Bulletin, October 2002; ‘Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report,” OJJDP, p. 44.
18 James Rainey, “Taking Comfort in Nancy Grace’s World,” Los Angeles Times, 28 January 2009.
19 See http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/. Accessed 10 November 2008.
20 Timothy Griffin, Monica Miller et al., “A Preliminary Examination of Amber Alert’s Effects,” Criminal JusticePolicy Review 18 (2007): 378-394.
21 James Allan Fox, “Amber Alert’s Dangers,” New York Times, 17 August 2002. For another example, see “Revisit Jessica’s Law,” Los Angeles Times, 19 January 2009.
22 “An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries,” UNICEF, 2007.
23 NBC, “Today,” “A Katie Couric Special: The 411: Teens and Sex,” 27 January 2005.
24 Mike Males, “‘Tween Sex, Dating Violence Survey Finds Hardly Any,” 24 February 2008, YouthFacts.org. Accessed 12 July 2008.
25 See Entertainment Magazine, “New Survey of American Teens Reveals Shocking Levels of Teen Dating Abuse and Violence,” 25 April 2006, http://emol.org/emclub/?q=teendatingviolence.
26 For this and numerous other heartening indicators about contemporary American youths (e.g., cigarette and other drug use and violent crime), see the annual reports throughout the decade published by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and titled “America’s Children In Brief,” available at www.childstats.gov.
27 Kathleen Kingsbury, “Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High,” Time, 18 June 2008.
28 Mike Males, “The Real Mistake in Teen Pregnancy,” Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2008. On another latter-day teen sex scare, “sexting,” see Carl Bialik, “Which Is Epidemic—Sexting or Worrying About It?,” Wall StreetJournal,8 April 2009.
29 Veronica Cassidy, “Media’s ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Fantasies,” Extra Magazine, October 2008.
30 Saad Bin Omer, K.S. Enger et al., “Geographical Clustering of Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements and its Associations with Geographical Clustering of Pertussis Cases,” American Journal of Epidemiology168 (2008): 1389-96; Daniel Feikin, Dennis Lezotte et al., “Individual and Community Risks of Measles and Pertussis