| Teen
Sexuality: Understanding it, Talking About It |
Lenore Buth,
How to Talk Confidently with Your Child about Sex (St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing
House, 1998).
Marva J. Dawn, Sexual Character: Beyond Technique to Intimacy (Grand Rapids, Illinois: Eerdmans, 1993).
Stanton L. Jones and Brenna B. Jones, How and When to Tell
Your Kids about Sex: A Lifelong Approach to Shaping Your Child’s Sexual Character (Colorado Springs:
Navpress, 1993).
Josh McDowell and Dick Day, Why Wait? What You Need to Know
about the Teen Sexuality Crisis (San Bernardino, California:
Here's Life, 1987).
Dennis and Barbara Rainey, Passport to Purity (Little Rock, Arkansas:
Family Life).
A
tape series designed to be used on a parent-child weekend get-away
with a 10- to 15-year-old son or daughter. The tapes help facilitate
discussion of topics such as peer pressure, friendships, changes
during puberty, and dating.
G. Leslie Somers, “True Love Waits” (Temple Baptist
Church, P.O. Box 358, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4C
2T2).
Seven
sermons on audiocassette: one on each of the six elements of the
True Love Waits covenant, and a final challenge.
The Newsletter of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding. (P.O.
Box 414, Elizabethtown,
PA 17022. Tel: (717) 361-8429. Fax: (717) 361-0031. E-mail: cpyu@aol.com)
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Internet
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| True Love Waits |
www.truelovewaits.com |
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An international campaign that challenges teenagers and college students
to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. Resources include Bible studies
on dating, abstinence, and overall purity; a contemporary musical; and annual
events. The True Love Waits covenant card reads: “Believing that true love
waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, those I date,
my future mate and my future children to be sexually pure until the
day I enter marriage.” |
| Family and Youth Concern |
www.famyouth.org.uk |
| Information
on trends and research in family issues, including teen sexuality
and sex education, not only in the United Kingdom but in the United
States and Canada as well. |
| The Center for Parent/Youth
Understanding |
www.cpyu.org |
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| Information,
resources and analysis on today's youth culture, including the influences
that contribute to teens becoming sexually active. Practical helps
for parents, youth workers, and educators in equipping their teens
to deal with this and other challenges of adolescence through a distinctively
Christian world and life view. |
| Attitude |
www.attitude.org.nz |
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| Help and advice
for New Zealand teenagers in life skills, including sexuality, and
mental health. |
| Abstinence-Based
Curricula, Programs and
Guidelines |
Josh McDowell, The
Myths of Sex Education: Josh McDowell’s Open Letter to His School Board (San Bernardino, California: Here’s Life, 1990).
Anne Newman and Dinah Richard, Healthy Sex Education in Your
Schools: A Parents' Handbook (Pomona, California: Focus on
the Family, 1990).
Dinah Richard, Has Sex Education Failed Our Teenagers? A Research
Report (Pomona, California: Focus on the Family, 1990).
The Art of Loving Well: A Character Education Curriculum for
Today’s
Teenagers (Boston: The
Loving Well Project Boston University, 1993).
An anthology
containing readings from both the classics and contemporary adolescent
literature, intended to enrich a standard curriculum. Each selection
is accompanied by a variety of creative learning activities to promote
conversation and reflection. Margaret Whitehead and Onalee McGraw,
Foundations for Family Life Education: A Guidebook for Professionals
and Parents (Arlington,
Virginia: Educational Guidance Institute, 1991).
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| Internet
Links |
| Project Reality |
www.projectreality.org |
| Choosing
the Best, an eight-unit program for Grades
7-9; Facing Reality, a fifteen-unit program for Grades 9-11. The
programs include curricula, classroom presentations, student workbooks
and parent/teacher manuals, youth rallies, assemblies, workshops,
and conferences. |
| Sex Respect |
www.sexrespect.com |
| A curriculum for ages
13-15, including three textbooks, a student workbook, a parents’ guidebook,
and a teachers’ manual, along with an AIDS supplement. |
| Teen Aid |
www.teen-aid.org |
| Me,
My World, My Future, a curriculum for junior high; Sexuality,
Commitment & Family for senior high students; and a directive, prevention-focused
AIDS curriculum for Grades 5-12. Also offers quality materials
developed by other individuals and organizations. |
| Friends First |
www.friendsfirst.org |
| A collaborative effort
between school and community to offer on-going support for sexual
abstinence to preadolescents and teens. Includes WAIT training (an
abstinence curriculum), parent education workshops, a video series,
and the Friends First Network (a group for teens committed to an
abstinent lifestyle). |
| Creating Positive Relationships |
www.cpr1.org |
| An interactive program for
6th, 7th, and 8th grades. There is also a CPR “Plus” curriculum,
a biblical approach to sexuality for use in parochial schools and
youth group settings. |
| Best Friends |
www.welfareinfo.org/best.htm |
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Utilizes peer and mentor support to reduce nonmarital teenage pregnancies. Includes monthly
group discussion, role model presentations, and weekly meetings with a mentor. |
| The National Abstinence
Clearing House |
www.abstinence.net |
| A central location to
access character, relationship, and abstinence programs, curricula,
speakers, and materials. Promotes appreciation for and practice of
sexual abstinence until marriage through distribution of age-appropriate,
factual, and medically accurate materials. |
| Medical
Implications |
AIDS/HIV: Fables, Facts and
the Future (Summer Night Communications, P.O. Box 28130,
Fresno, California 93729-8130).
A
two-hour video in four sections. It includes interviews with
experts and with individuals personally touched by AIDS, and
deals with medical data, public policy regarding condoms and
abstinence, and the questions most commonly asked.
Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., Sexuality and Sexually Transmitted
Diseases: A Doctor Confronts the Myth of “Safe” Sex (Grand
Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1990). |
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| Internet
Links |
| The Medical Institute of
Sexual Health |
www.medinstitute.org |
| Information
and solutions for educators, parents and others concerning
problems
associated with sexually transmitted disease and nonmarital pregnancy. |
| Related
Issues |
Wandering Toward
the Altar: The Decline of American Courtship (Mars Hill
Audio, audio cassette, www.marshillaudio.org).
Heather Jamison, Reclaiming Intimacy: Overcoming the Consequences
of Premarital Relationships (Grand
Rapids: Kregel, 2001).
Bernard
N. Nathanson, The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to
Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Washington,
D.C.: Regnery, 1996).
George Barna, Generation Next: What You Need to Know about
Today’s
Youth (Ventura, California: Regal, 1995).
George Barna, Real Teens: A Contemporary Snapshot of Youth
Culture (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2001).
Peter Brierly, Reaching and Keeping Tweenagers (London: Christian
Research, 2002).
Patricia Hersch, A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of
American Adolescence (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998).
Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent
Girls (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994).
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| Internet
Links |
| The National Marriage Project |
www.marriage.rutgers.edu |
| Information
on preparing adolescents for marriage, including reviews of school
curricula. |
| After Abortion |
www.afterabortion.org |
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A source of
information on the aftereffects of abortion and post-abortion healing:
research, testimonies, articles, and resources.
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| Resources
for Teens |
Books
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Bill Ameiss and Jane Graver, Love,
Sex, and God (St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House,
1998). Ages 14-young adult.
Rich Bimler, Sex and the New You (St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia
Publishing House, 1998). Ages 11-14.
Dannah Gresh, And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual
Purity (Chicago: Moody, 1999).
Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude toward
Romance and Relationships (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah, 1997).
John Holzmann, Dating with Integrity: Honoring Christ in Your
Relationships with the Opposite Sex (Brentwood, Tenn.: Wolgemuth
and Hyatt, 1990).
Stanton L. Jones and Brenna B. Jones, Facing the Facts: The
Truth About Sex and You (Colorado
Springs: Navpress, 1995). Ages 11-14.
Stanton L. Jones and Brenna B. Jones, What’s the Big Deal?
Why God Cares About Sex (Colorado
Springs: Navpress, 1995). Ages 8-11.
Sex -- with Attitude (Auckland, New Zealand: Parenting with Confidence,
1996). Available from Parenting with Confidence Inc., P.O. Box
37-708, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand.
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| Videos |
If You Love Me . . . Show Me! He was thinking tonight .
. . she was thinking forever . . . (Family of the Americas/Sincro International
Corporation, 1992. Tel: 1-800-935-2222).
Medical Institute for Sexual Health, Just Thought You Oughta
Know: Teens Giving Teens the Facts on Sex and STDs (Austin, Texas: 1998).
Medical Institute for Sexual Health, Sex Is Not a Game: Teens
Get Real About the Risks of Casual Sex (Austin, Texas, 2001).
Out in the Open: Plain Talk about Sex (Downers Grove, Illinois:
InterVarsity, 1989).
Sex has a Price Tag 2000, with Pam Stenzel (Grand Rapids: Rooftop
Productions, 2000).
Pam
Stenzel, a clinical psychologist with nine years of experience
in pregnancy crisis
counseling, talks to an assembly of high school students on the consequences
of sexualactivity outside marriage.
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A
man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they
will become one flesh.
-- Genesis 2:24 |
