"Whatever we think about the morality of sexual behavior, can't we agree that teens should be given a clear and consistent message that it is best to wait to engage in sex until they are ready to accept the financial, relationship, and emotional consequences of making that choice?" he wonders. For nearly all teens, he adds, that would be adulthood. Yet the message they get in school and from the media is that it's no big deal as long as they use a condom.
1 posted on
12/05/2005 5:32:08 PM PST by
wagglebee
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2 posted on
12/05/2005 5:33:00 PM PST by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
How many teens are taught that sex is not just a physical union but a spiritual one... and what are the conseqences of that union?
3 posted on
12/05/2005 5:37:35 PM PST by
jer33 3
To: wagglebee
depression, lemmesee could be caused by, uhhh, Iduno guilt maybe, or perhaps the fear of getting sick as a direct result, or just maybe it could be because it wasn't everything they hoped, or thought it would be. I've been a youth minister for ten years, and realized they get depressed easily, but usually the reason has more to do with emotions, than physical problems. But I do however agree though sex has one place, inside the bonds of holy matrimony.
4 posted on
12/05/2005 5:37:43 PM PST by
whispering out loud
(the bible is either 100% true, or in it's very nature it is 100% a lie)
To: wagglebee
From my perspective in the medical field, the birth control pill and antidepressants go hand-in-hand.
6 posted on
12/05/2005 5:44:45 PM PST by
bella1
To: wagglebee
We don't break God's laws, we break ourselves on them.
7 posted on
12/05/2005 5:45:02 PM PST by
Bosco
(Remember how you felt on September 11?)
To: wagglebee
"However, a recently published study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that depression is actually a risk factor for sexual experimentation on the part of girls, and heavy drug use on the part of boys."
What an interesting way to look at it - instead of saying sexual activity and experimentation are risk factors for depression.
8 posted on
12/05/2005 5:46:37 PM PST by
gondramB
( We don't get no government loan and no one sends a check from home-we just do what what we wanna)
To: wagglebee
I'm impressed! Someone actually realizes that cause and effect can go both ways.
9 posted on
12/05/2005 5:47:15 PM PST by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: wagglebee
This article is poppycock. If it feels good, do it. (sarcasm--for the sarcastically dense)
To: wagglebee
Okay, so... depressed, troubled teens are more likely to get into things they shouldn't.
What a forehead slapper that is.
16 posted on
12/05/2005 6:43:47 PM PST by
Bones75
To: wagglebee
I was seriously depressed as a teenager, and it was due to a lack of sexual experimentation.
To: wagglebee
Although the epidemiology in the study---a correlation between teen depression and previous sexual activity---and the sort of
post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning which makes it easy to confuse correlation with causation suggests that sexual activity leads to depression, I would suggest the contrarian view that depressed teens are likely to try to assuage their depression with sexual pleasure, and are only diagnosed as depressed when the attempt fails.
The Fathers of the Church gave a good analysis of the relation between our fallen passions and sinful behavior. Pleasure-seeking is almost always a flight from the pain of our fallen condition, and always, just as the serpent's promise in the Garden, fails to deliver, producing more pain, and more pleasure-seeking.
21 posted on
12/05/2005 7:08:34 PM PST by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Borax Queen; wagglebee
A prominent mental health counselor says depression may be the new sexually transmitted disease. He points to a new study that finds sexual experimentation and drug use often precede adolescent depression. I would add in with this abortions, about which the 9th Circus said parents have no right to know about...even though parents ARE REQUIRED to care for their children, otherwise they risk removal of said children by DSS for neglect/abuse, etc. But, how can parents know how to treat their children for unknown ailments when they are not allowed to be told by school and/or other authorities who have taken it upon themselves to give minor children, not their own, birth control pills, prescriptions for STD's, and/or whisk them off for abortions, etc.?
24 posted on
12/05/2005 7:18:34 PM PST by
nicmarlo
To: wagglebee
I'm sure this article would NEVER stoop to mistaking correlation for causation, but I can't find where it asserts this... Could someone help me out?
26 posted on
12/05/2005 7:54:05 PM PST by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: wagglebee
You mean a life of depravity does not lead to long term happiness and fulfillment? Who knew!
28 posted on
12/05/2005 9:13:29 PM PST by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
To: wagglebee
Bump for later read.
Glancing over it, it makes sense.
Of course what is taught in school is precisely the problem. Have sex, ah "safe" sex and you'll be fine.
29 posted on
12/06/2005 4:09:22 AM PST by
nmh
( Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: wagglebee
Teenagers simply don't have the financial [or] the emotional resources...
Well DUH! Not enough experience yet to light the path of life. They're called "young adults" for a reason.
To: wagglebee
How did rock and roll escape this sex and drugs study?
To: wagglebee
He points to a new study that sexual experimentation and drug use often precede adolescent depression....
...No kidding :^
And we needed a new study because we didn't know this??????..sheesh!
To: wagglebee
"He points to a new study that finds sexual experimentation and drug use often precede adolescent depression."
'Ja think?
What a blinding flash of the obvious.
34 posted on
12/06/2005 4:38:18 AM PST by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: wagglebee
He points to a new study that finds sexual experimentation and drug use often precede adolescent depression.Maybe the drug thing could lead to depression, but sexual experimentation....I don't think so. At least not if they're doing it right.
41 posted on
12/06/2005 5:15:17 AM PST by
capt. norm
(Beware of the "White-Flag Democrats"...we all know who they are.)
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