Parents' Guide to

life as we know it

By Liz Perle, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 17+

Shallow hormonal show about sex, sex, and sex.

TV ABC Drama 2004
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life as we know it is rated TV-14, but if your kids aren't having sex, this hardly seems like the kind of peer role modeling messages you want them to absorb. Girls talk about being sluts and buy red sexy underwear, while boys talk about how to get girls to beg them to have sex. Girls also put their feet in boys' crotches in science class, causing erections and immediate departures to the restroom. There's also a running "joke" about who the boys would rather sleep with, their mothers or their fathers.

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