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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Christian, too. And a very traditional and conservative one by most measures.

In my experience: youth group leaders, both men and women, tend to be very immature and (bad combo) are also bad at maintaining appropriate boundaries.

This is why my teenaged daughter did NOT go to local church youth groups. We did have her friends come over and my wife would facilitate discussion on spiritual things (like going through JI Packer's book on the Apostles' Creed, etc.). But that is instructional.  I expect it to be the same with my younger children as well (girl and boy).

A lot of church youth groups are basically unfettered and untrained group therapy sessions or trauma dumps.[/quote]

I grew up in a VERY conservative church, but as an adult belong to a more liberal sect. Looking back on my experiences with youth group, including "lock-ins" and sleepaway camps, I agree with this PP. Our youth leaders were often an opposite sex married couple, but still extremely young. In general, the husband might have a college degree but the wife would not. In terms of life experiences, they had hardly more than we did, and boundaries were nonexistent. [/quote]

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