Sex, Lies, and High School: What Your Teens Are Learning and Aren’t Telling You
Life Journey, 2006, 222 pp., $13.99,
www.CookMinistries.com/LifeJourney
Smart. Insightful. Real. The
Eversons, a mother-daughter team, have done an excellent job of immersing
themselves in the world of teen sexuality so you don’t have to. The report
they have brought back is appalling. But they suffuse their book with hope
that we will be able to help our kids live in a way that honors God in their
sexuality. Sex, Lies, and High School presents several helpful tools
including a reader’s guide with study questions, interviews with teens
and parents, and a chapter-by-chapter blog by Jessica Everson. The authors do
everything they can to prod parents and youth leaders into honest discussions
with teens about sex. In one chapter concerning where to draw the line, they
admonish, “Tell them in the most detailed terms—even the ones you aren’t so
comfortable with—what does and does not constitute sex.”
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If you’re looking for insights about
your teen’s sexual environment, read this book.
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Review by: John
Dunham, writer, International Bible Society, Colorado
Springs, Colorado.