THIS IS A GENERATION IN CRISIS

    * 1 out of 11 attempt SUICIDE each year.
    * 1 out of 10 fifteen year olds and younger have gone through family divorce in their life-time.
    * 58% have been involved in objectionable content on the web.
    * 40% have experimented with SELF-INJURY (are "cutters").
    * Use of prescription DRUGS (Ritalin, anti-depressants etc.) by children/teens has increased substantially in the past few years.

THIS IS A GENERATION WITHOUT MORALITY

• By the time the average child graduates from high school, he/she will have watched 19,000 hours of TV including about 200,000 sexual acts and 1 million ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
• 1 in 10 high school females have reported being RAPED at some point in their life.
• Fear of violence in schools is now the leading "worry" of public school teens.
• 48% of high school seniors are SEXUALLY ACTIVE (had sexual intercourse in past 3 months).

THIS IS A GENERATION WITHOUT TRUTH

• 91% say there is NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
• 75% of teens in America believe the central message of the Bible is, "God helps those who help themselves".
• 53% believe Jesus committed sin (40% of born again teens believe Jesus committed sin).

Find out more about the BattleCry for a Generation by clicking through to the statistics and videos on the left.

ATTACK ON A GENERATION

Today's teens are being attacked by popular culture like no other generation. Hollywood, the music industry, advertisers, and even the mainstream media are using their arsenal of tools to win the battle for our teens' hearts- and so far they are winning! In order to defeat our enemy, we must know how it thinks and understand the weapons it uses. It is critical that we realize how far-reaching the crisis is- and then we must work together to stop it.

TELEVISION

This generation views 16 to 17 hours of television each week and sees on average 14,000 sexual scenes and references each year. That's more than 38 references every day.

INTERNET

This generation spends three hours a day online and is the first to grow up with point-and-click pornography. Almost 90 percent of teens have viewed pornography online at one of the 300,000 adult websites, most while doing homework.

MUSIC

More than 25 percent of teen-targeted radio segments contain sexual content; 42 percent of the top selling CDs contain sexual content

ADVERTISING

With more than $128 billion dollars in their pockets, this generation has been targeted by corporate America, who does everything it can to grow brands and profits without any regard to the moral decay of a generation.