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The Lost Children of Rockdale County
VHS
90 minutes
HQ27 .L67 1999
They are young and from affluent families. They have been given the gifts of freedom, comfort and privilege. Their parents love them and have been able to provide good schools, the money to wear brandname clothes, and a big house to live in. Yet despite their economic advantages, the children of Rockdale County, Georgia, are living in a suburban community plagued by a teenage syphilis outbreak; where a shooting rampage in the high school made national news; and a local sixteen-year-old boy was killed in a fight at a popular strip-mall parking lot.
FRONTLINE spent more than five months living and working in Conyers and talking to teenagers about their lives. When epidemiologists interviewed the syphilis victims, they were shocked by what they heard; fourteen-year-old children told of scores of sexual partners, all-night orgies and sex parties.
FRONTLINE explores the turbulent psychology of America's suburban teenagers in this provocative film and uncovers a parent's worst fears - group sex, binge drinking, drugs and violence.
Produced by Rachel Dretzin Goodman and Barak Goodman
Distributed by Public Broadcasting Service, FRONTLINE (www.pbs.org)
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