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Why true love waits : the definitive book on how to help your kids resist sexual pressure / Josh McDowell

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wheaton, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, [2002]Description: xxiv, 491 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0842365915
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.70835
Contents:
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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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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