Those charged with providing moral direction for young believers, including not only parents and Christian school teachers but also pastors and youth workers, need to pay more attention to what is happening among young Christian women.Īllow me to set forth a sampling of facts from my own, recently published work on sexual activity and beliefs, focusing on professed Evangelicals: the largest conservative wing of Protestantism. Regardless, there are serious problems among religious females. Yet overall, this is not true, and in a handful of important ways women are doing worse. Here especially we often assume that females are at least doing better than males, even while recognizing decline among both. Nowhere is this clearer-at least for conservative Christian believers concerned with transmitting a sound, biblical sexual ethic to the next generation-than in matters related to beliefs about sexuality and sexual practice. However, there are frightening trends among females that deserve our attention as well.
So are men’s higher levels of suicide, substance abuse, crime, and delinquency. Addiction to porn and video games, the lack of fathers modeling positive masculinity in the face of high divorce and out-of-wedlock birth rates, and lower levels of academic achievement for men are all well documented. We have grown accustomed to a great deal of concern over the recent trajectory of males, particularly boys and young men. Tracking an alarming rise in lesbian and bisexual relationships
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