Concerning what today’s youth are exposed to in popular entertainment, the book Boys Will Be Boys observes that it is unlikely that children will develop sound moral principles when they “grow up watching tens of thousands of hours of TV shows and films in which people are assaulted, shot, stabbed, disemboweled, chopped up, skinned, or dismembered, when children grow up listening to music which glorifies rape, suicide, drugs, alcohol, and bigotry. ”
एक महत्त्वाचे कारण म्हणजे आपले वातावरण; आधुनिक काळात तर वातावरणामध्ये आमूलाग्र बदल घडले आहेत.