Parent-Teen Communication about Premarital Sex

Factors Associated With the Extent of Communication

Twenty-one parental and 16 adolescent topic-specific reservations that parents and adolescents may have about discussing sex and birth control were explored in a sample of 751 African American inner-city youths (14 to 17 years old) and their mothers. Both maternal and adolescent perspectives were obtained with regard to the prevalence of specific reservations and the extent to which they were predictive of communication behavior. Topic-specific reservations were predictive of communication behavior over and above more general family environment variables, such as the quality of the parentteen relationship and the overall quality of communication in general. A number of interaction effects were found, suggesting a differential impact of reservations as a function of the age and gender of the adolescent. The types of reservations expressed by parents were not correspondent with the types of reservations expressed by adolescents. --State University of New York at Albany

Women driving spurs premarital sex

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) A report given to a high-level advisory group in Saudi Arabia claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could encourage premarital sex, a rights activist said Saturday. The ultraconservative stance suggests increasing pressure on King Abdullah to retain the kingdom's male-only driving rules despite international criticism. Rights activist Waleed Abu Alkhair said the document by a well-known academic was sent to the all-male Shura Council, which advises the monarchy. The report by Kamal Subhi claims that allowing women to drive will threaten the country's traditions of virgin brides, he said. The suggestion is that driving will allow greater mixing of genders and could promote sex. Saudi women have staged several protests defying the driving ban. The king has already promised some reforms, including allowing women to vote in municipal elections in 2015. There was no official criticism or commentary on the scholar's views, and it was unclear whether they were solicited by the Shura Council or submitted independently. But social media sites were flooded with speculation that Saudi's traditional-minded clerics and others will fight hard against social changes suggested by the 87-year-old Abdullah. Saudi's ruling family, which oversees Islam's holiest sites, draws its legitimacy from the backing of the kingdom's religious establishment, which follows a strict brand of Islam known as Wahhabism. While Abdullah has pushed for some changes on women's rights, he is cautious not to push too hard against the clerics. In October, Saudi Arabia named a new heir to the throne, Prince Nayef, who is a former interior minister and considered to hold traditionalist views, although he had led crackdowns against suspected Islamic extremists. His selection appeared to embolden the ultraconservative clerics to challenge any sweeping social reforms. Prince Nayef was picked following the death of Crown Prince Sultan.
--Yahoo News (June 17, 2011)

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. --Galatians 5:19-21 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins people commit are outside their bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. --1 Corinthians 6:18-20 It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God. --1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

Repleksyon:
Ang Pre Marital Sex ay ang pagtatalik ng dalawang tao kahit na hindi pa sila napagbubuklod ng kasal. Bagamat alam ng karamihan na hindi ito moral ay may iilan pa rin sa atin ang naisagawa na ito. Isa sa mga dahilan ay ang malaks na imluwensya ng maling barkada at mga taong nakapaligid sa isang tao. Sa tingin ko ito ang dahilan kung bakit madaling nasasangkot ang kabataan sa mga ganitong isyu. Marahil ito ay dahil madaling maudyokan ang mga kabataan. Mahilig rin silang mag-eksperimento sa mga bagay-bagay dahil sabik silang malaman ang pakiramdam ng pakikipagtalik. Ang ibay nagsasabing kaya nila iyon nagawa ay dahil sa sobrang pagmamahal. Para sa akin, hindi tamang sabihin na dahil sa pagmamahal kaya naisagawa ng dalawang tao ang pre marital sex. Dahil naniniwala akong kung mahal ng dalawang tao ang isat isa, marapat lang na igalang nila ang isat isa. Ang pagtatalik ay isinasagawa lamang ng dalawang tao napagsama ng kasal. Ang ating katawan ay sagrado at dapat pag-ingatan. Hindi ito dapat binababoy. Hindi ito dapat isinasangkot sa masasamang gawain gaya ng pre marital sex dahil kapag nakipagtalik ka sa isang tao kahit isang beses lamang ay hindi mo na maibabalik ang kasagraduhan n gating katawan ano man ang iyong gawin. Bilang isang mag-aaral, natutunan kong ang ating katawan ay marapat lang igalang. Magsisimula ang paggalang sa sating mga sarili dahil hindi tayo magagawang igalang ng ibang tao kung tayo mismo ay hindi kayang igalang ang ating sarilil.

- Paola Ariana Benedicto