Title:  Dating Older Boys
Producer:  Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #381, April 16, 2008
Time: 1:44
SUGGESTED LEAD: TYPICALLY, PARENTS WORRY WHEN THEIR DARLING DAUGHTERS BEGIN DATING… AND THEY REALLY WORRY IF THEIR GIRL GOES OUT WITH AN OLDER BOY.   ACCORDING TO A RECENT STUDY, IT TURNS OUT THEY HAVE GOOD REASON TO BE WORRIED.  CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY.
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NARR: SARAH IS 19.  HER BOYFRIEND IS 22. (:04)

SUPER: Sarah Lim, 19 years old (:04)
“Because I am dating an older guy, you know, I am very more open to alcohol, just because, I can ask him, ‘Hey can you go to the store and buy me something?’”

NARR: SHE SAYS ANOTHER RISK OF DATING AN OLDER GUY IS BEING PRESSURED INTO HAVING SEX. (:05)

SOT: Sarah Lim, 19 years old (:18)
“I think a lot of guys…especially in high school will go for younger girls just because they’ll give it up, you know.”

NARR: IN FACT, ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY THE NON-PROFIT GROUP CHILD TRENDS, ONE IN FIVE GIRLS HAS DATED A BOY AT LEAST THREE YEARS OLDER …

AND 10 PERCENT SAY THEY’VE HAD SEX WITH AN OLDER BOY BEFORE THEY TURNED SIXTEEN. (:12)

SUPER: Nancy McGarrah, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist (:36)
“Girls, definitely, tell me that they feel like they have to do the sexual requests- they have to honor the sexual requests of their boyfriends or they will get dumped.”

NARR: WHAT’S MORE, ACCORDING TO THE STUDY, GIRLS WHO DATE OLDER GUYS ARE LESS LIKELY TO USE PROTECTION, MORE LIKELY TO BECOME PREGNANT, TWICE AS LIKELY TO ACQUIRE AN S-T-D. (:09)

SOT: Sarah Lim, 19 years old (:56)
“When guys are older…girls will trust them, ‘Oh he knows what he’s talking about.  He has more experience.’”

SOT: Nancy McGarrah, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist (1:01)
“Frequently the younger girl is naïve.  Sometimes she doesn’t have the assertiveness to stand up for herself and demand, for example, that a condom be used.”

NARR: EXPERTS SAY PARENTS NEED TO SET GROUND RULES- THEY CAN ONLY DATE SOMEONE ONE GRADE ABOVE OR BELOW, ONLY GROUP DATES UNTIL THEY’RE SIXTEEN … AND IF THE KIDS ARGUE … (:12)

SOT: Nancy McGarrah, Ph.D., Psychologist (1:24)
“Explain to them that you trust them and you know that they are a mature person … but at the same time there’s different levels of maturity ... and just like they are not ready to get married … they are not ready to have babies … they are also not ready to be in relationships with people significantly older than they are.”

SUGGESTED TAG:   STUDIES HAVE ALSO SHOWN THAT WHEN GIRLS DATE OLDER BOYS THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO SMOKE, DRINK ALCOHOL AND DO DRUGS.  FOR MORE INFORMATION LOG ONTO <LOCAL URL> AND CLICK ON THE CONNECT WITH KIDS ICON.