Reply to In this day and age, are you comfortable with Youth Group?

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "In this day and age, are you comfortable with Youth Group? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a scandal in my church between the youth leader and a teen girl right before I aged into the youth department.  During the time I was in the youth, we had 4 different leaders, some better than others, but there was absolutely nothing inappropriate with the kids.  I have some wonderful memories of my experiences with my youth group.

I encouraged my daughters to participate in youth group, but I trusted the leader and his wife, along with the other volunteers.  I also raised my girls from a very young age to be cautious, to recognize inappropriate behavior, and what to do if they had concerns.

While there can and have been problems in youth groups (both amongst boys and girls without sufficient supervision and from adults taking advantage of their position), those problems are not limited to religious groups (youth or otherwise).  Anytime kids get together there is the potential they’ll be inspired to engage in behavior their parents would disapprove of, and if they’re motivated enough, they’ll find a way to act on it.  Similarly, predatory adults can be anywhere (neighbors, friends, family members, etc.), but are especially likely to be anywhere there are kids (coaches, teachers, scout leaders, etc.).

Parents have to decide in any situation if they can trust both the adult(s) in charge of their kids and the procedures in place to protect the kids under their supervision, and if they have prepared their kids well enough to recognize problems and to know how to deal with them.[/quote]

You are advocating that is ok for abuse to happen at church.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics