Just saw this article about a recent study at BYU that examines bad language in YA books.
Kind of amused by this because I recently managed to inadvertently teach my two-year-old the F word. So I guess she's way ahead of the curve and won't need no stinking books to learn swears when she's a teen.
But in all honesty, your thoughts?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/sweari...lar-attractive/story?id=16370599#.T7aKUVI8CSoProfanity in teen novels varies greatly from book to book, but characters that do use foul language tend to also be the most popular, attractive and rich, according to new research published in the journal Mass Communication and Society.
Sarah Coyne, professor in the department of family life at Brigham Young University, analyzed the use of profanity in 40 young adult books on the adolescent bestsellers list.
Thirty-five out of the 40 books had at least one swear word. She found that YA novels contained on average 38 instances of bad language, but one book had nearly 500 instances of swearing.
Of note, the characters that were doing the swearing tended to be of higher social status, better looking and have more money than their non-swearing counterparts.
Kind of amused by this because I recently managed to inadvertently teach my two-year-old the F word. So I guess she's way ahead of the curve and won't need no stinking books to learn swears when she's a teen.
But in all honesty, your thoughts?