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Teen Pregnancy

How to Handle a Teenage Pregnancy

When your teenage daughter tells you she’s pregnant, you may feel a roller coaster of emotions. While this news may come as a shock there are some biblical ways on how to deal with teenage pregnancy.

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Sexual Assault and Rape: Help for Teens

Ways to help teens understand or heal from sexual assault and rape.

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Teen Seeking Help After Sexual Assault

I’ve just become a victim of rape. I desperately need help and don’t know where to find it – what should I do now? So far, I haven’t told my parents, and no one else knows. I’m ashamed to admit it to friends and family, and I’m afraid I’ll only make a bad situation worse …

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Teen Questions About “Dungeons and Dragons”

What’s so bad about “Dungeons and Dragons?” My friends and I really enjoy it. We’ve been at it for about a year and a half now. By this time our characters and storyline have become pretty involved and complex. My parents aren’t happy about this. They complain that the game is taking up too much …

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Teen Sees Nothing Wrong With Premarital Sex

What’s the problem with having sexual intercourse before marriage? I’m an intelligent, responsible and mature high school student, and I can’t see why having sex with someone I love is wrong. Most of the arguments I’ve heard against my position are religious in nature and I just don’t buy them. What’s your response to that?

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Teen Struggling With Masturbation

Will God send me to hell for masturbating? I’m a Christian, and everybody knows me as a “good kid” — active in youth group, involved in school leadership, cooperative with parents and teachers, and respected by my friends. But nobody knows about my masturbation habit. I feel really guilty.

Teen Thinking About Suicide

Can you give me one good reason why I should go on living my rotten life? My parents got divorced last year, and now my boyfriend wants to break up with me. School is a joke. My friends don’t care. Things have been bad before, but never this bad. I keep thinking that I’d be …

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Teen Upset by Major Move

How can I get over the anger I feel about being forced to leave my school, my friends, and my entire life behind as a result of my family moving to a new city when my dad was transferred? My parents keep telling me to snap out of it, but I can’t. In fact, there …

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Teen Wants to Help Mom Understand Changes in Their Relationship

How can I get my mother to realize that I’m not a kid anymore and that our relationship has changed? She and I have always been close, but it’s different now that I’m a teenager. Some of it’s my fault. I get moody, and I know that my behavior hurts her sometimes. I wish she …

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Teen Wants to Know How to Respond to Overly Critical Parent

Can you help me deal with a mom who is always putting me down? Nothing I do is ever good enough for her. My room is never clean enough, my grades are never high enough, my friends are always a “bad influence,” and my hair and clothes are always an “embarrassment to the family.” There …

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Teenager Wants to Know if It’s Advisable to Delay College

Do you think it’s wise to take a year off after graduating from high school? I’ve told my parents that I don’t want to enroll in college until next fall, but they have doubts about my plan. They’re concerned that I’ll lose momentum, and they’re also worried about my health insurance coverage. What do you …

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Teens and Unfulfilled Sexual Desires

Why has God given teens such strong a sexual drive and no healthy, acceptable way to satisfy it? This just doesn’t seem fair. In Bible times people got married at a younger age. As a result, it was normal to have sex and start raising kids before you reached the age of 20. These days, …

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Teen’s Girlfriend Is Pregnant

Can you help me and my girlfriend figure out what to do now that she’s pregnant? Neither one of us is old enough to take care of a child on our own. I’ve been raised in a Christian home, and I’ve always believed that abortion is out of the question, but right now it’s hard …

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The Myth of “Safe Sex”

What’s unsafe about “safe sex?” This message you communicate on this subject is the opposite of everything I’ve ever heard from my teachers at school and other responsible adults. What are your reasons for calling “safe sex” a myth?

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Trapped in an Incestuous Relationship With a Sibling

How do I put a stop to the sexual relationship in which I’ve become involved with one of my siblings? It’s hard to explain how it came about. I have a feeling that it all began long before I was even aware of what was happening. Now that I’m fully conscious of it, I feel …

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Unmarried and Pregnant: Reasons to Consider Adoption

I’m 18, single, and pregnant, but I don’t want to release my baby for adoption. Why should I? I could never give up my child to strangers who might turn out to be weird and abusive. Besides, my parents have already promised to help me (they don’t approve of adoption anyway). I’ve even got a …

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What the Bible Says About “Swearing” and “Dirty Words”

What’s so bad about profanity?

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Women Warriors in Popular Culture

Why do video games feature so many “tough” girls these days? I’m a teen girl who enjoys playing computer and video games, but I don’t think it’s realistic that there’s so many “tough,” heroic girls fighting with guys. I don’t believe that girls will ever be stronger or more powerful than guys in the physical …

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Help for Victim of Cyber-Bullying

What can I do about kids texting intimidating messages to my cell phone and posting mean rumors about me on Facebook? At first I tried to ignore them, but the situation has gotten so bad that I don’t want to show my face at school anymore. These people are destroying my life!

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Adopted Child Wonders About Biological Mother

As an adopted kid, I can’t help wondering – why did my mom give me up? Why would any mom put her child up for adoption? I’ve been aware of the situation since I was small, and on the whole I’m very happy with my life, but I can’t get away from nagging thoughts and …