On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > No amount of advertising or preaching is going to stop teenagers from > having sex. Their hormones are in a uproar, the sex drive is telling > them to mate, which is nature's way of renewing the species. When > you're hot and sweaty in the back seat of car, you aren't thinking > about that ad you saw on TV or the sermon from last Sunday.
That's fine when you're 16 but the programs are focused on 12-14 year-olds. > No child on earth could have had the "be a good girl" rant preached at > them more thoroughly that I did - from Mom, Dad, both Grandmas, the > Preacher, school teachers, all my seven aunties.. Didn't work then on > me, doesn't work now. The study found if take the focus off until married and just try to delay it until they're more emotionally able to handle it, 16 +, then it works better. Could be they just need know it's ok not to have sex at 12 contrary to what they see on ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312998 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
