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Interesting Article On Carrie Pejean...
Many of you may have already read Kathryn Jean Lopez's articles and posts, but I thought this one was very insightful. This article appeared in the National Review Online.
"But back to Carrie Prejean: It doesn’t take a village to raise a child, but where are our protective instincts? Mercifully, she seems to have faith, but when you’re dating Michael Phelps on again and off again, you probably don’t have the best support system walking into a vicious national debate. One wonders where her adult supervision is. Twenty-one-year-olds will make mistakes, as will 17-year-olds. But that lingerie photo was especially unnecessary, inappropriate, and revealing in a much larger sense. Some adult should have helped her stand up to that job, as she clearly had the courage to stand up to Perez Hilton and the bullies who didn’t want her to speak her mind on marriage. No teenager should be appearing topless in lingerie ads. Over and over again we see how children are oversexualized. Sexting? Where are the parents? Is no one around as kids are taking the compromising photos and sending them around over their cell phones? They are taking the photos somewhere, under someone’s roof. Someone is paying the cell-phone bills.
They may tell you they’re adults, but they’re not, and they need you.
Carrie Prejean’s situation is a little different from the average 21-year-old’s, but not that much. Today, things kids do without thinking can have a lasting impact. Do you know what your teen or college student’s Facebook page looks like? Does he realize that, if he’s not careful, his first job may suffer death-by-Google before it even starts?
But it’s not just watching the Internet trail. We are on the precipice of a new teen culture of hyper-sexualization. One report last year found that one in four teens has a sexually transmitted disease. Teen pregnancy is on the rise, up to approximately 750,000 a year. What we do now can determine the future here — whether numbers decrease or explode. What you do as a teen can have a lasting impact, just as what adults say and do about it can."
"But back to Carrie Prejean: It doesn’t take a village to raise a child, but where are our protective instincts? Mercifully, she seems to have faith, but when you’re dating Michael Phelps on again and off again, you probably don’t have the best support system walking into a vicious national debate. One wonders where her adult supervision is. Twenty-one-year-olds will make mistakes, as will 17-year-olds. But that lingerie photo was especially unnecessary, inappropriate, and revealing in a much larger sense. Some adult should have helped her stand up to that job, as she clearly had the courage to stand up to Perez Hilton and the bullies who didn’t want her to speak her mind on marriage. No teenager should be appearing topless in lingerie ads. Over and over again we see how children are oversexualized. Sexting? Where are the parents? Is no one around as kids are taking the compromising photos and sending them around over their cell phones? They are taking the photos somewhere, under someone’s roof. Someone is paying the cell-phone bills.
They may tell you they’re adults, but they’re not, and they need you.
Carrie Prejean’s situation is a little different from the average 21-year-old’s, but not that much. Today, things kids do without thinking can have a lasting impact. Do you know what your teen or college student’s Facebook page looks like? Does he realize that, if he’s not careful, his first job may suffer death-by-Google before it even starts?
But it’s not just watching the Internet trail. We are on the precipice of a new teen culture of hyper-sexualization. One report last year found that one in four teens has a sexually transmitted disease. Teen pregnancy is on the rise, up to approximately 750,000 a year. What we do now can determine the future here — whether numbers decrease or explode. What you do as a teen can have a lasting impact, just as what adults say and do about it can."
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