
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 14, 1993                   TAG: 9306140251
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short

POLL: SOUTHERN PARENTS FEEL OVERSHADOWED

Adults that grew up in the South remember the big influences on them - parents and religion. But a new poll says those adults believe their children are influenced more by television and peers.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll appeared in the newspaper Sunday. The poll indicated that Southerners believe the influences on children have been inverted in one generation.

The poll said that 38 percent of Southerners believe that family has a great deal of influence on today's youngsters, while 88 percent said the family greatly influenced them as children.

Only 10 percent of those polled said the mass media had a great deal of influence on them when they were growing up, but 63 percent said the media greatly influenced children today.

"Parents have lost the authority," said Lynn Simonoff, a Richmond, Va., mother of two teen-agers. "I think kids snub authority these days." - Associated Press

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