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Doesn’t matter whether it’s a teen girl who’s pregnant, hasn’t told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.