THE PARENT INSIDER July 2016
Volume 2, Issue 7 THE PARENT INSIDER July 2016 Faith Fellowship Church, 6734 Bridgetown Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45248 513 - 598- 6 7 3 4 Values Are Your Most Important Parenting Tool By Stanton L. and Brenda B. Jones Think of all the different things one ous sexual relationships. A young teen- -Study from U of Virginia can value, good and bad, as ways to ager, despairing of real purpose for her get the acceptance and love we need: life, tries to fill this gaping void with Men who attend reli- gious services regular- communication, beauty, vivacious- slavish conformity to her peer group. ly are more likely to ness, domination, going along with the The kinds of goals we work toward have happy and stable crowd, superficiality, politeness, hu- range from the grandiose to the pa- marriages, more likely mor, seductiveness, honesty, sexual thetic. One person yearns to be Presi- to be involved with conquest. And any of the following and dent or to possess a million dollars by their children and less more can be thought of as ways to age forty. Another lives day to day try- likely to divorce achieve significance: punctuality, work- ing desperately to avoid criticism that Percentage of children living in father-absent aholism, diligence, wealth, power, de- would be devastating, or to receive the homes rose from 11 ceit, frugality, competitiveness, preci- approval of others who are seen as percent in 1960 to 27 sion, evasion of responsibility. One per- respected and esteemed. percent in 2000 son develops an unspoken plan for 38.5 percent of achieving significance by compulsive babies in 2006 were work habits that will force his supervi- born out of wedlock sors to respect him; another attempts to meet the deep need for relatedness Article continued on Pgs 4.
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