Why We Are Losing Our Children

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Why We Are Losing Our Children
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The State of Our Youth Today

• Eating Disorders
• 11 of young people in America suffer from either
  anorexia nervosa or bulimia.
• 90-95 of all patients with eating disorders are
  female adolescents.
• Two out of three teenage girls surveyed were
  trying to lose weight.
• Only 50 of those with eating disorders
  report being cured about 6 of serious
  cases die.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Family relationships/broken homes
• 1 out of 2 marriages end in divorce. Almost 1 out
  of 3 children live in a single parent home.
• Parents spend 40 less time with their children
  today then they did a generation ago.
• 1 out of 5 teens has not had a conversation with
  their parents that lasted 10 minutes in more than
  a month.
• The number of single dads grew 70, and the
  number of households headed by single
  moms grew 25 in the last decade.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Music and Television
• Teens are glued to the TV on average for 5 hours
  per day.
• Teens listen to an average of forty hours of
  music per week. Most of the teen music aims at
  aggressive and violent messages about sex and
  drugs.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Prostitution
• 95 of prostitutes are runaways.
• At any time there are 600,000 adolescents
  involved in prostitution.
• The average runaways first act of prostitution
  takes place at 14 years old.
• About 1 billion dollars is spent on prostitution
  each year in the United States.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Sexual Activity
• 50 of all teens are sexually active. 8 in 10
  girls and 6 in 10 boys wish they had waited until
  they were older before having sex.
• Due to sexual activity 15.3 million people
  contract a sexually transmitted disease and 2/3
  of that number are teenagers.
• Experts estimate that 90 of all rapes are never
  reported.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Sexual Assault
• Somewhere in America a woman is sexually
  assaulted every 2 minutes, according to the U.S.
  Department of Justice. www.rainn.org
• According to the Justice Department, 1 in 2 rape
  victims is under age 18, 1 in 6 is under age 12.
• 1 out of 3 girls have been sexually abused before
  age 18. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 boys are sexually
  molested before 18.
• In America a woman is sexually assaulted
  every two minutes.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Substance Abuse
• Junior and Senior High School students consume
  1.1 billion dollars on beer.
• 18 of teens drink more than once per month, 18
  drink regularly, and 25 smoke regularly.
• 2 million American teens start smoking each year
  and 75 continue to smoke for 10 years after and
  most for their entire lifetime.
• 10 of youth ages 12-17 report using illicit
  drugs.
• An estimated 1.8 million Americans 12 and
  older are current users of cocaine.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Substance Abuse
• 56 of youth reported marijuana as easy to
  obtain. 21 of youth reported heroin as easy to
  obtain. 14 of youth reported being approached by
  someone selling drugs during the thirty days
  prior to the poll.
• 113 million youth ages 12-17 reported currently
  drinking alcohol. 33 million youth ages 12-17
  admit to being binge drinkers (meaning 5 or more
  drinks in one occasion). 12 million youth ages
  12-17 were heavy drinkers or otherwise classified
  as alcoholics.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Suicide
• In the U.S. more people kill themselves than are
  killed by all other causes. 8 of 10 people who
  kill themselves give clues before doing so.
• There is an 80 chance that people who fail an
  attempted suicide will try again.
• 10 of girls contemplate suicide while 7.5 of
  guys do. Every thirty minutes in America - 29
  kids will attempt suicide, 2,795 teenage girls
  will become pregnant, and 22 girls will get
  abortions.

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The State of Our Youth Today

• Teen Pregnancy
• 4 in 10 teenage girls get pregnant at least once
  before they reach the age of twenty.
• The United States has the highest rate of teen
  pregnancy in the industrialized world.
• Teen pregnancy costs society at least 7 billion
  dollars a year.
• From girls ages 15 to 19, 86 of births were to
  unmarried teens.
• (www.swmihoh.org)

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We Are Losing Our Children

• Because we are losing our parents
• More parents are without God (Duet. 66)
• More parents are setting the wrong example
  (Prov. 207 Ezek. 1644)
• More parents are divorcing (Mal. 214)
• More parents are without priorities (Mt. 633)
  and time (Eph. 516)
• More parents are without proper standards
  and discipline (Eph. 61-4)

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We Are Losing Our Children

• Because we are losing our culture
• Young people are pulled away by worldly friends
  (Psa. 11-3 Prov. 110 1226 2224-25 1 Cor.
  1533)
• Young people are pulled away by the liberal media
• Young people are pulled away by liberal education

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We Are Losing Our Children

• Because we are losing the church
• Young people are hearing less gospel preaching
  from the pulpit or class room (2 Tim. 42)
• Young people are hearing less balanced preaching
  (Acts 2020,27)
• Young people are witnessing more worldly members
  (1 Cor. 51-13)
• Young people are hearing more
  complaining (Phil. 214)

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We Are Losing Our Children

• Because our children are losing themselves
• Children have a free-will of their own (Ezek.
  185,10)
• Young people often reject wise counsel (Prov.
  18,30)

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We Are Losing Our ChildrenBut There Is Hope

• Train up a child (Prov. 226 2322-26)
• A child can learn from the worst and be different
  (Ezek. 1814)
• A lost child can return (Lk. 15)
• A young person can choose the right course (Psa.
  1199-16)