Posted on 04/14/2008 7:30:32 AM PDT by newgeezer
Diane Peterson works as a sales clerk at a Walgreens in Fenton. She was developing pictures last month when she spotted some familiar faces — teenage girls she has known since they were in kindergarten — in an X-rated spring break adventure.
"I was appalled by what I saw," Peterson said. It wasn't just the drunken, sexual poses that bothered her. She knew some of their parents. And she knew they didn't have a clue.
A recent poll commissioned by the cable network WE, which launched a docu-series called "High School Confidential," found a major communication gap between parents and their teenage daughters. Among the parents surveyed, 73% said they know much of what is happening in the lives of their adolescent daughters. Only 45% of the girls agreed with that.
Parents also had rosy — and unrealistic — visions about the closeness of their relationships with their daughters. Nearly 80% said their daughters could talk to them about anything. Only 54% of girls agreed.
Unlike clueless parents of the past, many of today's boomer parents bought into the friend-over-parent bargain. Consequently, they expect to be in their teen's inner circle, a person in whom their son or daughter confides.
... One in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease.
"We see a lot of random hooking up," said Brittany Dowell, a West County high school senior.
Such casualness about sexual activity has taken the pressure off what was once a climactic prom decision — do it or don't? — into a bit of a nonissue.
... Kids who want to have sex don't need to wait for a big school-sponsored party. And kids who want to wait to have sex, aren't going to change their minds because a prom committee decided "It's a Starry Night."
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(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Yeah, “ABC Family” is way out there these days. I remember when it first appeared and I knew it as the station that would actually still show the old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials. Now it’s the home of bilge like “Greek” and the station’s tagline is “ABC Family: A New Kind of Family.”
Even when it isn’t. You don’t really expect things to not change over the years, do you?
??? teenagers having sex means they have turned their souls over to satan?
morality has not always been in steady decline over the ages, there are ups and downs. i do not think it is inevitable that morals decline.
You still tell them. Parents have a responsibility to teach their children to make good choices.
Perhaps, as you say, this is just one of the down periods.
And the kids knowing the parents know they are watching the show is like an “okay” from the parents. That’s how kids think.
Oh I know and there’s some good kids out there that will listen....
This promiscuity at such an early age actually stunts their brain development, not to mention their emotional development.
They become unable to have a truly physically and emotionally intimate relationship in the future.
I once read that Paris Hilton said that all her boyfriends complained that, when they had sex, she “wasn’t there.” She said that was because it was in fact a meaningless act to her; she could talk on the phone while it was occurring and not miss anything.
Even Paris Hilton was smart enough to chalk it up to becoming emotionally numb due to longtime promiscuity. She then said she was going celibate for a year, which she prompted reneged on, just out of habit.
This is what these children are signing up for: eventually a lifetime of relative emotional numbness, where they can never truly connect with another human in an emotionally intimate way.
All parents should realize how dangerous “spring break adventures” are, on many different levels.
you are right, no good can come from it. my 19 yo college freshman daughter rolls her eyes at the sluttiness of the majority of her peers.
As is done throughout history, we all just do what we think is right at the time.
-ccm
If children are not given moral instruction when very young what makes anyone think they will be moral teenagers?
Notice I said ‘moral instruction’ not the swill of so-called “sex ed”.
Of course when parents themselves have little moral sense there isn’t much to pass on to their children. It’s this kind of parent that posits that there is nothing anyone can do but pass out condoms.
Sounds relative to me.
Sounds like you are saying that morals are just determined by what one believes.
She’s a fan of P.J. O’Rourke, Thomas Sowell, and William Shakespeare, as well as the Founding Fathers. And tough as a boot - she plans to join the Air Force next year, and hopes to go to Iraq!
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