As major changes in adolescent morality have become obvious in recent decades, many have suggested that those changes have occurred as a result of the influence of the moral content in television programming. They point out that TV programming has moved to new levels of promiscuity and sexual expression in recent years and contend that these changes have caused a reversal, or at least a major reshaping, of the moral norms evident in earlier years. This report will examine whether television programming could have caused the changes now so apparent in youth morality.