Tuesday 5 October 2010

Article summary "“Parents adopting open attitude to alcohol, drugs and sex”

Hello. Today, I will write a summary about an article related to my career (Sociology).
The title of this article is “Parents adopting open attitude to alcohol, drugs and sex” and its author is Amelia Hill. The link of this article is the next: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/05/parents-open-alcohol-drugs-sex. The article is from the periodic “The Guardian”.
This article says that the British parents are increasingly relaxing about their children “drinking alcohol from as young as 10 years old, taking drugs and having sex, according to research released today”. However, there aren’t references clearer to the research, which is a negative aspect of this article, because is very important that the readers can know the primary source of the information.
The information of this article gives us only percentages about the attitudes of the British fathers regarding to the consume of their children of drugs and alcohol. This article too gives us only percentages about the attitudes of the British fathers regarding to the fact of their children had sex. The attitudes studied of the British fathers regarding to have sex and consume drugs or alcohol are related to the age of their children (the age when the children do that actions). However, the percentages don’t say that the great majority of British fathers are adopting open attitude to alcohol, drugs and sex, because the percentages never pass the 50%. This is another negative aspect of this article, because it says things very exaggerated without the right information. Anyway, when Amelia Hill says that the attitudes of the British fathers regarding to the homosexuality are increasingly relaxed, she states something aright, because two-thirds (a great proportion) of the British parents say that they would have no problem if their children was gay.
In conclusion, this article is a little sensationalist, because it uses the information of the wrong manner sometimes.

1 comment:

  1. I did the same article :B, and you're absoluty right when you said that is a little sensationalist and don't pronounce important information.

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