I taught my children strong spiritual and tradition values. I taught them to be responsible for their personal decisions and to not be influenced by peer pressure. I also took my family to mass every week and regularly encouraged my children to live their lives by strong traditional values. My wife strongly encouraged our daughters to have moral values and to respect themselves.
All of my daughters were virgins in their teens.
I taught my sons to be gentlemen and to by considerate and respectful of young women. I told them to never feel they had to impress their friends by being sexually active.
All my children thanked me and told me they respected me for taking a strong moral stand.
Many of their classmates became pregnant and/or contracted sexually transmitted diseases.
This article from the Washington Post gives you an idea of the attitudes among young people in the area when my kids were growing up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/students070899.htm
My wife and I are raising them in a Christian home, that's not a 100% certainty that they will turn out right but so far so good, as 4 of them are grown and have their own children.
The other factor that has helped enormously, is that 2 parent thing, each being opposite sex to the other.
(Puffing up proudly) We have 6 children, 14 grand children (one more on the way) and 4 great grand children (one more on the way).
Hope I post this correctly. Very new to site.
Detective, your thoughts encapsulate the life I grew up knowing, and living.
I would say that it’s sad it’s come to this in our culture, but the fact is,...the culture(not as popularly defined) disagrees.
I grew up under the tutelage of an avowed catholic mother and an agnostic navy fighter pilot(whom I believe was closer to God than any man I have known...Though he would politely withdraw from such conversation).
I feel blessed to have entered my life thusly and look forward to perusing the information and knowledge I hope to gain here.