Not Wholly to Blame

Children are growing up thinking that marriages are not meant to last because so many professional footballers have high profile affairs, experts have warned.

England internationals such as John Terry and Wayne Rooney, whose alleged infidelity was reported in the tabloid press, are role models for millions of teenage boys, according to Reg Bailey, who is leading a government review of the "sexualisation" of childhood.

He raised concerns that the actions of pop musicians and footballers may be creating “norms” in behaviour for children and indicated that his review for the Department for Education would consider the issue.

Seems to be the red rags are equally responsible for this- if they didn't report such "news" with such gleeful vigour and screaming headlines, then it won't get rammed down everyone's throat.

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Reports in tabloid newspapers claimed that Rooney had used a prostitute while his wife was pregnant.  Just months before England's doomed World Cup campaign in the summer, it was alleged that Terry had an affair with the girlfriend of his England team-mate Wayne Bridge.