It's a process, not an act. Parents are taught that some conflict is necessary and parents should provide children with several acceptable alter natives for resolving it. Youth are taught to develop a life mis sion. The family focuses on dating. Bible teaching is on marriage.
Parents can and do have an influence over their children in forming their values.
It's important for parents to be transmit- ters of both factual and moral content. What the Bible Teaches about Sex In general, those who practice New Testament Christianity will be successful in family relationships. Specific commands directed to husbands, wives, children and parents are to establish proper order in the home and give special emphases to those at titudes and actions that enhance family harmony. Procreation is intended to be ex clusively within a permanent, monoga mous, heterosexual marriage relation ship. Violating God's commandment for sexual purity is sin and has conse quences that go far beyond whether a girl becomes pregnant.