Comment away!
Rats... I thought this article would be about biblical courtship as the alternative to increasingly depraved (not to mention socially clueless) dating practices. There is no way this society/culture is going to survive if it can’t even produce stable family relationships. Time to salvage what we can and let the rest of this ‘civilization’ go to H*ll...
Ugh. . .the world seems to be sliding faster and faster toward destruction.
That's because you don't recognize decadence when you see it, Charlie. It's a downward spiral. It's not a fad. It's a deadly disease. It's course is destruction. It is relentless, inexorable, and predictable. The honest and wise know it when they see it.
Damn. I was born too early.
Comment away!
There are people still around who even remember when “dating” wasn’t accepted, and it was instead called “COURTING.”
(back when one was expected to remain faithful to one’s husband/wife, people married for life, abortion wasn’t prevelent, etc...?)
I never do Internet dating and never go out with someone I met at a bar that night ... might hook up later but only in public places ....
These days it’s really tough - then there’s too many Jewish mom’s trying to hook me up with their son ...
... and absolutely no pilots .... well scheduled airline pilots that is ....
Contrast the lack of coverage about this in the MSM, with the coverage of Sarah Palin’s (much exaggerated) wardrobe budget of half that amount.
It is a no win for girls/women for obvious reasons.
The sexually transmitted disease rate will continue to rise dramatically.
This is destructive to families and family values.
This “get pregnant and get a monthly support check from the government” is a bad idea. Children with no father in the house ... It has almost killed black families; and it has destroyed many young people as a result.
Now let me see ... are there any benefits?
Free, casual sex?
You decide.
Less than 40 % of incoming college freshmen are male. If you send your daughter to a school that is two thirds female, what would you expect?
My advice: stay out of the public schools and choose your college wisely.
Re: as they get older, they start to realize that it’s not a good way to find a spouse.
Anyone who doesn’t know this from the start is a pure idiot.
You can also thank all the parents who got divorce and then have no problem moving a shack up right in front of their kids. What a great example! I know many parents that are doing this including my ex who declares he is a “Christian conservative”. I guess he figures because he says she is his “fiancee with no date set” it makes it okay in front of the kids. But he was aways a say as I do not as I do kinda guy.
Yes, and in 15 years these young women will be asking why there are no responsible young men around. The American people never learn for long.
A lot of this problem is from the lack of polite social settings for young people to have relaxed association. School does NOT count, as it is neither relaxed nor social.
As any dog owner will tell you, if a dog is not able to freely associate with other dogs while it is growing up, it will not know how to behave around them and be a problem—either scared, asocial, or aggressive—likely for the rest of its life. Should that much more be expected from children, who should have even more complicated social relationships?
The truth of this can be found by actually asking children one question: “When was the last time you just sat down and chatted with someone of your own age, of the opposite sex?” For a lot of children, the answer is “never”. Always they are under pressure, there are other things going on, no opportunity to just hang out and make small talk. If anything, they are kept apart based on their gender.
The correct answer is that they should do so regularly. They should feel as relaxed talking with the opposite sex as they do their own sex. Neither scared, indifferent, or aggressive.
As it is, lots, perhaps the majority of children are barely able to see the opposite sex as human, much less as someone they will eventually want to be emotionally close to. This leads to all sorts of social problems down the line.
The new, liberated generation. Ain’t it grand? /sarc
“According to a report released this spring by Child Trends, a Washington research group, there are now more high school seniors saying that they never date than seniors who say that they date frequently. Apparently, it’s all about the hookup.”
The problem with this article is that the writers seem to believe that these teenagers must be either dating or hooking up, and there aren’t any other possibilities (teenagers who are ‘courting’, teenagers who are just single and not having sex, etc) because all teenagers must be sexually active, even if they say they aren’t... *sigh* I hated people like that as a teenager =(