Parents: The Creators and Destroyers of Morals

Justin Apresa a sixteen year-old boy remembers how he first came to learn about sex and the treatment of the opposite sex. “It wasn’t like my parents talked to me about sex and girls,” Justin commented. He learned about it through his cousin who, at the time was merely seventeen years old. Justin remembers how his cousin told him that the more women he slept with, the more “Macho” he would become, meaning more of a “Man” in English terms. He was also told that women liked to be treated like sexual objects, if a women refused to have sex with him, it did not matter because he was a “Man”. Justin explained that he grew up with the misconception that sex was a gift given to him from God. “I remember thinking how awesome it would be to sleep with as many women as I pleased,” Justin would say. Who is to blame why this adolescent became misguided? It is easy to hold the video games, television and the school system responsible, but the real problem is parents. T...