There is no false reality - if they and others are doing it, or emulating what they see then it becomes their reality.

TV has had some effect. Public school has had more. They have all been educated to believe the same scientific/secular humanist/atheist agenda in a public school system that presents itself as free from religion but was founded expressly to promulgate the "religion" of secular humanism (look up the documents). If it wasn't so serious, I would laugh when I see teens standing up and proclaiming themselves to be rebels and individuals who aren't going to believe or do what their parents believed or did, when all of them are dressed exactly the same, owning exactly the same things and using exactly the same words as every other teen. If schools were really educating our kids, then each would know how to think for himself or herself, not group think with every other teen. If schools were really educating our kids, TV wouldn't have that much effect because kids would be able to think about it critically or exercise that little muscle in their thumbs that turns it OFF. But when millions of little heads are being filled with precisely the same facts from a range of maybe a half dozen textbook companies available, they all think alike. They are only allowed to have one way of thinking and one value system, that of secular humanism. If they come into school with a Christian viewpoint or a Muslim viewpoint or a Buddhist viewpoint they quickly get hammered down into a secular humanist viewpoint because that is the religion of the schools. In fact, I'd wager that almost all of the people out there on AB who call themselves secular humanists and atheist are so because that was what was hammered into their little heads for 12-13 years in school. They probably have never questioned whether the information they were taught in school was right or wrong, or whether maybe their parents and grandparents knew more than the schools. They probably have never questioned that the purposes of the founders of public school was to mold them into little tools of the state. If you don't believe me, just google Horace Mann or John Dewey and the words secular humanism. Its all over the internet. Yes, most of the sites are Christian sites, but only because public education would rather keep those documents quiet. They never talked about those things when they taught me to respect Horace Mann and John Dewey in my education classes.

This is different for teenagers how?

We are humans, not monkeys. humans do not travel from tree to tree eating bananas all day. Our brain is much more advanced. This is the difference between man and ape. Eating bananas all day long will not send a man into space. Think about it.