These three obsessions bear fruit in three illnesses substance abuse, materialism, and immorality. Most of those teens have been infected through unprotected sex. The American Health Foundation reports worsening trends among the youth in several areas, including homicide, suicide, intentional injuries, teen pregnancy, and childhood obesity. 2 Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents aged 15 to 19. It doesn t take a child psychologist to realize that our youth are self-destructing.
Adolescence is a time of emotional separation from family and a joining to peers.
God has put this mechanism within the species for survival reasons, but the devil has exploited it in order to destroy. At a time when peer acceptance becomes acutely important for children, the enemy of children makes peers dangerous to each other. Rites of passage include all the self-destructive behaviors sexual activity, drug and alcohol abuse, fashion worship, violence that the media so successfully sells. As parents, we must realize that the media is at total cross-purposes with us. There is no way to harmonize your intentions and those of the money-hungry merchants behind the camera.