Why are so many young girls (12-17 y/o) so promiscuious these days?
I think there are several factors at play here for both girls and boys. The first one is the lack of fathers who are actively involved in the lives of their children. I’m not just talking about single parent households. I’m talking about two parent ones as well. If children grow up seeing that it’s okay for a one parent to check out the marriage for sexual gratifiction then that’s how they are going to precive realtionships as being. The boys learn they don’t have to be faithfull and the girls learn to not expect it. They come to realize that the girls who give it up are the ones who get attention. They will come to see that a woman’s sexuality is the only thing about her that is desirable. Also with out a strong father figure a girl will seek the attention and approval of men any way she can since that is what she is missing from her father. The mothers do a play a role in this as well. Especially if they tolerate the father’s bahviour, are promiscuious themselves, or participate in t
I’m thinking things are not that different from previous generations. After all, Mary the mother of Jesus was thirteen when she gave birth. Also, I believe the sexualization of children by the media is nothing more than a currently popular myth. A strange thing happened in 2007 with college students doing research for a psych class on young children’s reaction to being touched. The control group was all 5 to 10 year old kids, at home, in normal 2 parent family life settings, and the expected range of reactions happened with both boys and girls. A hidden camera was used to record video for 30 minutes each on 10 different occasions with a variety of touching experiences. One of the scenarios was for a parent to sit on the sofa and watch TV with the child’s head on a small pillow on the parent’s lap and the touching was to gently and casually rest an open hand on the body of the child. Another set up was parent and child sitting in a large chair reading a favorite children’s book. When th
