The parents didn’t know? Horse feathers. They know, but don’t want to think about it. One evening we were at a neighbor’s house while their teenaged kids were watching a show on ABC Family Network (family??) called Kyle XY. The premise was kind of interesting, sort of sci-fi, but the storyline was atrocious: kids having sex, talking about having sex, parents knowing about all of this and providing condoms (instead of guidance). This was just ONE episode. On a network that calls itself ABC FAMILY.
So any kids watching this cr*pola no doubt think they’re somehow not in fashion if they’re not having sex.
I know I’m older than dirt, but when I was a kid, if I had behaved this way, and my parents found out about it, I’d have been sent off to the convent school to get my priorities straight.
But glorified on a channel that is supposedly for FAMILY? I shudder at the thought.
ABC Family’s parent company is DISNEY, so in a sense that was A Disney channel. Walt is doing summersaults in his grave.
Yeah, “ABC Family” is way out there these days. I remember when it first appeared and I knew it as the station that would actually still show the old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials. Now it’s the home of bilge like “Greek” and the station’s tagline is “ABC Family: A New Kind of Family.”
And the kids knowing the parents know they are watching the show is like an “okay” from the parents. That’s how kids think.