According to a 2008 survey by Princeton Survey Research Associates (PSRA):

• Percentage of U.S. parents who don't believe video games have any impact on their children: 62
• Percentage of U.S. parents who feel video games have a positive impact: 19
• Percentage of U.S. parents who feel video games have a negative impact: 13
• Percentage of U.S. parents who feel the impact of video games depends on the game itself: 5

Research reported in a 2008 issue of Pediatrics magazine suggests that teens who spend the most time watching sexually charged television shows are twice as likely to become pregnant or impregnate someone else. Researchers surveyed 2,003 children aged 12 to 17 in 2001, and then followed up with many of them in 2002 and 2004. When they narrowed down the teens surveyed to those who were sexually active, ...

Does watching certain movies or television shows harm your spiritual life? Experts debate about whether viewing violence, disturbing images, profane conversation, and explicit sexual conduct affects children and adults.

Regarding their own three children, Hollywood megastars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are considering the same issue. In one interview, Brad Pitt said: "We have been having this discussion ...

Many Christians find themselves put off by the different forms of modern art. However, whenever I witness modern art or listen to depressing modern music and am tempted to write it off (or worse, to find it amusing), I think of the words of Francis Schaffer:

These paintings, these poems, and these demonstrations which we have been talking about are the expressions of men who are struggling with their ...

Kids have a lot more money than they used to. They are also exposed to a great deal more advertising, not only in front of the television and computer at home, but even at school, through Channel One. As a result, children as young as 18 months can identify a brand, and their desires influence how adults spend billions of dollars.

Psychiatrist Juliet Schor, author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized ...

As Colleen Carroll Campbell’s book The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy suggests, college age Americans indicate an increasing interest in traditional Christian faith.

In 2005, the Higher Education Research Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles released a survey revealing the following trends in college freshmen:

81 percent occasionally attend religious ...

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine named the greatest rock 'n' roll song of all time. Their selection, Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” was not a huge surprise. Dylan’s opus is at the top of several such lists. It was recorded on June 15, 1965, in Studio A at the headquarters of Columbia Records. A few days later, Dylan and his manager listened to the edited tape and were convinced it would be a hit. ...

The International Spa Association reports the number of hotels or resorts offering spas has more than tripled: from 473 spas in 2000, to 1,662 spas in 2004.

Spas are offering exotic treatments indigenous to their location, including "lava rock massages in Hawaii, papaya scrubs in the tropics, grape seed facials in Sonoma, and maple body wraps in the Northeast."

In Arizona, "A Native American shaman ...

M. Night Shyamalan is the young filmmaker of Indian heritage responsible for the popular films, The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village. Reflecting on the spiritual themes of some of his movies, a Christian Science Monitor article reports:

Shyamalan's spiritual beliefs are largely a mystery. In high school he was put off by the dogmatism he encountered. He told Time magazine in a 2000 interview that ...

In an interview, movie star Ben Affleck was asked, "Can you at least touch on the idea of sex in Hollywood? To most men around the world, you're living the fantasy life—fame, beautiful women, sex whenever you want it."

Affleck replied, "The thing they've got to understand about that, particularly about the way it works with men and sex in Hollywood, is that it really is The Wizard of Oz. It's more ...