notes
[1]. MSNBC News, “Nearly 3 in 10 Young Teens ‘Sexually Active,’” January 18, 2005, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6839072/.
[2]. Cynthia Dailard, “Understanding ‘Abstinence’: Implications for Individuals, Programs and Policies,” The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy 6, no. 5 (December 2003): 4–6.
[3]. Jennifer M. Parker, “The Sex Lives of Christian Teens,” Christian Reader, March/ April 2003, www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2003/002/7.28.html.
[4]. Sarah St. John, “The Big V: Various Reasons Support Celibacy,” Truman State University Index, April 3, 2003, www.trumanindex.com/news/2003/04/03/Trulife.
[5]. Les and Leslie Parrott, Relationships (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998), 131.
[6]. Michelle Tauber, Thomas Fields-Meyer, and Kyle Smith, “Young Teens and Sex,” People, January 31, 2005, 86–96.
[7]. Jim Hancock and Kara Eckmann Powell, What (Almost) Nobody Will Tell You About Sex (El Cajon, CA: Youth Specialties, 2001), 10, 56. Reprinted with permission from Youth Specialties, Inc.
[8]. Paula Reinhart, “Losing Our Promiscuity,” Christianity Today, July 10, 2000, 32–33.
[9]. Hancock and Powell, What (Almost) Nobody Will Tell You About Sex, 10, 56. Reprinted with permission from Youth Specialies, Inc.
chapter 3: over it!
[1]. One Life Revolution, “Unbelievable Stats,” http://domino-201.worldvision.org/ worldvision/appeals.nsf/stable/olr_understand_stats_page1.
[2]. Philip Yancey, “Cry, the Beloved Continent,” Christianity Today, March 2004, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/003/28.112.html.
[3]. Family Safe Media, “Pornography Statistics,” http://www.familysafemedia .com/pornography_statistics.html.
[4]. Janet Root, Compassion International, “The Millstone Report: Sexual Exploitation,” http://www.compassion.com/resources/childpoverty/reports/default.htm.
[5]. Family Safe Media, “Pornography Statistics.”
[6]. Ramona Richards, “Dirty Little Secret,” Today’s Christian Woman, September/October 2003, www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/2003/005/5.58.html.
chapter 6: extreme makeover: inside edition
[1]. Laura Sessions Stepp, “Nothing to Wear,” Washington Post, June 3, 2002, C01.
[2]. Ibid.
chapter 7: relationships180
[1]. Parrott, Relationships, 134.
chapter 8: real friends, real benefits
[1]. Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “Friends, Friends with Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall,” New York Times, May 30, 2004, final, sect. 6, 30.
chapter 11: what abouts
[1]. The twelve tests presented in this chapter are adapted from Henry Bowman, Marriage for Moderns (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954).
chapter 13: one + the world
[1]. Wendy’s name has been changed at her request.
[2]. Leonard Sweet, Summoned to Lead (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), 13.
[3]. The paragraphs in this section are adapted from and include direct quotations from the following article: Rebecca Grace, “Activism: Letter from 11-Year-Old Gets Attention of Retailer, Media,” American Family Association Journal 28, no. 11 (November–December 2004): 11. Reprinted with permission.
chapter 15: worldwide revolution
[1]. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Why We Can’t Wait (New York: Harper and Row, 1964); quotation found at www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_luther_king_jr.html.