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To: West Coast Conservative

Guess the media, Hollywood, and the Left will need to redouble their efforts after these disturbing poll numbers come out. I'm inclined to believe the research that indicate the brains of older teens show serious deficiencies where their center of judgment should be, however, so these 13 yr. olds may still have good sense that will be missing when they are 16.


14 posted on 07/31/2005 6:33:57 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib
A while back on Sean Hannity's radio show I heard a seventeen year old girl talking about a new trend in high school among her friends. They were Christians and they had decided to not date, ever, and to not have sex until they were married. They said that you could learn all you needed to know about someone by just being around them a lot in different wholesome situations. They said dating was for one purpose only, making out. They would only consider other Christians who shared their views as potential mates.

She sounded like a well rounded sharp young girl and I was amazed by her well thought out sincerity.

The teen years are the true coming out years where teens start learning who they are and spreading their own wings of independence. That is why traditionally teens have been rebellious, often doing thinks to upset their parents and starting new outrageous fads. Whatever the norm is a certain number of teens are going to do the opposite.

That is what we are seeing now to some extent. The norm is leftwing libertinism (new word?) for teens. Many are examining the norm and going in the opposite direction. That is good news. The pendulum always swings. When it gets to the extreme in either direction it hesitates, then starts moving back the other way and eventually returning to the extreme again. Fortunmately, it spends most of its time somewhere near the middle.
20 posted on 07/31/2005 7:29:18 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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