What's up with all the teen drug use and pregnancies in fundy churches?

[Persnickety Polecat]

(11-14-2011 10:56 PM)tiarali Wrote:  Yet they'd honestly believe they were helping - because if they continued relationship, they are somehow condoning the behaviour that caused the consequences, and be perpetuating the situation.

When you're in fundyland your idea of right and wrong is completely skewed.

What's truly illogical about their reasoning is that many more were probably having sex -- it was just few that had visible evidence of it.

[BethD]

A lady I used to go to church with was raised in a Fundy church until she was 12. The reason they got out? Her sister, who was 16 at the time, got pregnant. The sister and her boyfriend didn't get married and the leadership of the church tried to talk the girl into an abortion (shows appearances are everything.) When the girl refused to get an abortion the whole family was kicked out of the church. The surprising thing was they started going to a more moderate Baptist church soon after instead of giving up on church altogether.

[amyrose5]

In my experience teaching at private religious schools, many parents have the notion that their kids will learn their moral and social values and practice them by osmosis. If they stick them in a religious school, make them sit in church, and send them to youth group, it will take care of itself and they will have no need to have any real dialogue with them about why to adopt those values.