ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

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Findings / scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime lost no maximum or intermediate level points.

Impunity/Hate lost the maximum level points twice, once due to the use of the most foul of the four letter word vocabulary and once due to a presentation that illicit sex, hate, lust and other evil are to be a normal part of life and acceptable and desirable.

Sex/Homosexuality lost the maximum level points once due to a series of picture nudity of the quintessential boy's mother painted by her adulterous lover. Sex/Homosexuality lost the intermediate level points three times due to a mother masturbating with associated sounds and some visuals, due to a remark: "I've had ten times as much sex as other girls" by a teen girl with a voice of normality, and due to presentation of having sex out of wedlock is like living in paradise.

Drugs/Alcohol lost no maximum or intermediate level points.

Offense to God lost the maximum level of points three times, twice due to the use of God's name in vain with the four letter expletive and once due to a portrayal of the sins of the Garden of Eden being caused by sexual attraction/lust between an unmarried underage couple -- lies on and before explicit Scripture.

Murder/Suicide lost no maximum nor intermediate level points.

Additional examples of unacceptable programming warranting the lost of the minimum level points included:

• 22 additional uses of God's name in vain but without the four letter expletive
• very frequent portrayal of sexual freedom; that sexual aggression by teens is acceptable
• promotion of a psychic TV network in the background
• portrayal that sexual activity increases wisdom and maturity
• sexual innuendo
• "Mom's away for the weekend!" planning, twice (no father)
• "You can pin me anytime...maybe I'll just pin you."
• frequent arrogant invasion into other people's lifestyles as needed and for their good
• alcoholic beverage as a typical welcome-home-after-work beverage
• a mother talking of taking a mud bath with her boyfriend
• a polite verbal flip off to a mother
• adolescent smoking
• revealing dress (female anatomy ghosting through upper garment)
• "He's not coming over to study" by a teen girl about her male visitor while parents are away
• a teen girl with her pants unsnapped
• a "spirit" visitor
• nine uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary
• "I bought new underwear" while anticipating a visit by a boyfriend
• an adolescent mentoring his mother
• portrayal that sexual purity is undesirable and to be avoided
• dragging a boy off to have sex with him
• female underwear visible at least twice
• sexual foreplay
• invitation to sex
• presenting the HIV virus in a positive light: "Your chance of dying in a car wreck" is much greater than dying from AIDS
• 'You'll thank me when you're older' attitudes
• a mother leaving her husband for selfish reasons
• talk of skinny dipping as acceptable
• portrayal that an adulterous romance is blissful
• violent vigilantism
• camera angle to force observer to view private regions