The River of Culture

What are we teaching our daughters to protect them from today’s toxic culture?

In years gone by, the ‘river of culture’ used to be a gentle stream that carried our children along toward adulthood. Today it has become a raging torrent that carries everything downstream and threatens to drown unprepared young people. So says James Dobson in his latest book “Bringing Up Girls”.

The river of culture broke its banks in the 1960’s when I was a teenager. The catch cry of the day was “If it feels good, do it” and “ God is dead”. Decades later our society is reeling under the consequences of that revolution.

Two of the deadliest lies that Satan is feeding our daughters are:

• The true source of power for young girls depends on maximising their beauty and sex appeal and marketing it to compete for acceptance and popularity, and
• Sexual experience for girls is healthy and leads to empowerment.

Dobson claims that these two social mores of today have created a super highway to depression for our girls. Anyone with teenage daughters or working with girls in schools and churches knows that this claim is utterly and sadly true. I would like to talk a lot more about this depression and accompanying self-hatred.
I have my own (strong) opinions on the topics of beauty and early sexual experience. No doubt you do too and I would like to hear what they are.

So what are you teaching your daughters? How are you protecting themt from the toxic environment that they have to live in?

Miranda Devine's article in the Sunday Sun on July 10 is worth a read.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/parents-should-spy-on-their-teens-web-antics/story-e6frfhqf-1226091436707