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[quote=Anonymous]PP I have a perhaps more unique experience with YL although this was when I was a teen so perhaps grain of salt as it was ~2002.

As liberals and (self described) intellectuals, my parents were horrified when I joined YL as a teen but didn't keep me from doing it. It's evangelical and I went to the weekly meet ups and camp. I loved it. It was fun! We sang, had a ton of laughs, it was good clean fun and my friends were there. I dated a bit and it was always v innocent dating--getting coffee boys, making out at camp in secret and then running back to cabins, etc. However, it's born again and I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior in front of everyone. People often asked you if you were saved and asked about your redemption story.

I am an atheist married to a jew and this sort of seems funny to me now. My long term takeaway is mixed--no harm done as a teen, so ok cool. But it was evangelical and preachy and I wonder if I was not straight or "normal" in the way they perceived if I would have gotten the right message. Also as a woman there was a lot of talking about chastity which I find to be really really problematic. There was shame around sex before marriage etc which I would never want to pass on to my kids.

So that's my two cents--if you already believe stuff like that then I bet you'd love it for your kid. But if you're more liberal/woke like my parents were, they were sort of rightly horrified. [/quote]

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