An Injustice Is Being Done To Today’s Children
Dear Parents Have The Courage to Educate Them and “Be Not Afraid!”
LoveEd Is Indispensable for Children and Parents
LoveEd Empowering Parents to effectively teach their children about the beauty of love and sexuality!
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A George Barna Research study found that 30% of Millennial’s (born 1984-2002) Identify as LGBTQ, as do 39% of Generation Z (born 1997-2012). So much confusion among Young People, what is going on here?
My heart goes out to the young people of today growing up in a very twisted, distorted and toxic culture. They have been repeatedly lied to about the very basics concerning the meaning of human life and dignity, marriage, the family, authentic love, the true meaning of sex and sexuality and more. Particularly disturbing is the sexual indoctrination, grooming and desensitizing of our children’s consciences in the public school system.
John Paul II wrote, “Closely connected with the formation of conscience is the work of education, which helps individuals to be ever more human, leads them ever more fully to the truth, instils in them growing respect for life, and trains them in right interpersonal relationships.”[1]
“In particular, there is a need for education about the value of life from its very origins. It is an illusion to think that we can build a true culture of human life if we do not help the young to accept and experience sexuality and love and the whole of life according to their true meaning and in their close interconnection. Sexuality, which enriches the whole person, ‘manifests its inmost meaning in leading the person to the gift of self in love’. The trivialization of sexuality is among the principal factors which have led to contempt for new life. Only a true love is able to protect life. There can be no avoiding the duty to offer, especially to adolescents and young adults, an authentic education in sexuality and in love, an education which involves training in chastity as a virtue which fosters personal maturity and makes one capable of respecting the “spousal” meaning of the body.’”[2]
In a society split by tensions and conflicts caused by the violent clash of various kinds of individualism and selfishness, children must be enriched not only with a sense of true justice, which alone leads to respect for the personal dignity of each individual, but also and more powerfully by a sense of true love, understood as sincere solicitude and disinterested service with regard to others, especially the poorest and those in need. The family is the first and fundamental school of social living: as a community of love, it finds in self-giving the law that guides it and makes it grow.[3]
Education in love as self-giving is also the indispensable premise for parents called to give their children a clear and delicate sex education. Faced with a culture that largely reduces human sexuality to the level of something common place, since it interprets and lives it in a reductive and impoverished way of linking it solely with the body and with selfish pleasure, the educational service of parents must aim firmly at a training in the area of sex that is truly and fully personal: for sexuality is an enrichment of the whole person-body, emotions and soul-and it manifests its inmost meaning in leading the person to the gift of self in love.[4]
Sex education, which is the basic right and duty of parents, must always be carried out under attentive guidance, whether at home or in educational centers chosen and controlled by them. In this regard, the Church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the school is bound to observe in sex education, by entering into the same spirit that animates the parents.[5]
For this reason the Church is firmly opposed to an often-widespread form of imparting sex information dissociated from moral principles. That would merely be an introduction to the experience of pleasure and a stimulus leading to the loss of serenity-while still in the years of innocence-by opening the way to vice.[6]
So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas Aquinas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: “Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.”[7]