Why true love waits : the definitive book on how to help your kids resist sexual pressure / Josh McDowell
By: McDowell, Josh [author].
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BookPublisher: Wheaton, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, [2002]Description: xxiv, 491 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0842365915.Subject(s): Sexual ethics | Youth Sexual behavior | Parenting | Parenting & family relations| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | Main Library Reference Section | Circulation | C 306.70835 M138w 2002 (Browse shelf) | Available | 124482d |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-489).
Part 1. A crisis of premarital sex
Why does true wait? Our youth want answers
Adolescent premarital sex : the high cost to youth
Adolescent premarital sex : the high cost to society
Part 2. Reasons kids don't wait for sex
The physical reasons : children in grown-up bodies
The environmental reasons : growing up in a world where wrong is right
The media's role
The emotional reasons : A "love famine" at home
The relational reasons : needy kids turn to sex
The psychological reasons : everyone is doing it, so why shouldn't we?
Part 3. Reasons kids should wait for sex
Abstinence : God's protection and provision
The physical reasons to wait
The emotional reasons to wait
The relational to wait
The spiritual reasons to wait
Why "safe sex" isn't safe
Part 4. How to help our kids wait for sex
Develop a nurturing relationship with kids
Encourage an intimate relationship with Christ
Teach and model moral values at home
Help kids develop the strength to say no
Help kids determine standards for dating
Offer forgiveness and provide hope when kids blow it
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