I was speaking with a neighbor today and she was telling me that when she was in college in the early 60's the dorms were all separated women from men - no coed dorms. She mentioned that there were no visitors of the opposite sex allowed in dorm rooms and that if your room wasn't picked up, you'd receive demerits. Sounds like an impossibility? We have gotten so far away from our morals in this country that it sounds like an impossibility.
Colleges today are breeding grounds for premarital sex, std's, abortions, large quantities of alcohol and drugs, and a general lack of discipline - not to mention our kids are becoming indoctrinated by the far left leaning liberal professors and administrators. I used to think this was just a rite of passage - like everyone had to go through those experiences to grow up. I have completely changed my mind.
As I am watching my teenage son navigate his way through high school here in a large metropolitan area in the year 2012, I am more and more convinced that we, as parents, must protect our children from situations that could harm them physically or spiritually. As I've said before, my only job in life is to make sure my kids get to heaven. It's really as simple as that.
It may seem awesome that your child is the most popular or is dating the most popular student, and is invited to all the parties, and is going to school dances in "party buses", and is starting to drink and experiment with drugs (because after all, doesn't everybody?), but it's not awesome. It's anything but. Children in these high school scenarios introduce a whole host of problems that come with a long list of far-reaching complications - issues that will stay with them possibly for life.
As parents, it is our duty to establish the standard for which we expect our children to uphold, and then it is our duty to make sure we don't purposely place them in situations that could sabotage those standards. It is a fact that girls involved in premarital sex suffer from depression. Girls attach emotion to sex - it's the way God created us. We become emotionally bonded for life with the person we are supposed to save ourselves for. We become emotionally bonded through the sexual act. Boys don't have this inclination as much. Boys and girls in high school are too young and too immature to handle such a mature decision and all the issues that could potentially arise from such a decision (contraception - which comes with its own list of side effects, abortion - which becomes a permanent scar on a woman's soul, std's, depression, etc.)
Why on earth would we willingly send our children into these scenarios in high school? College is worse! The kids are having a field day with an over abundance of alcohol, drugs, and premarital sex. They don't even realize how they are harming themselves, and their parents aren't guiding them away from these things by sending them to our big state institutions. Heck, big state institutions aren't the only culprits - it's really any college nowadays. Last week there was a report of a small no-name college in Pennsylvania that offers the morning-after pill in a vending machine in its health center. Great! So, those parents that chose to send their beloved daughters off to the small local school are essentially allowing that school to possibly kill their grandchild and harm their child physically and spiritually with a toxic drug readily available in a vending machine.
What's the answer? For Catholics, I advise you to do three things. First of all, I am advocating that parents really watch their kids in high school and set firm boundaries...and stick to them. Secondly, find the "Cardinal Newman Society" through the internet and follow them through fb or twitter or emails as they set the standard for exposing Catholic colleges and universities for encouraging a liberal agenda. Thirdly, buy the Newman's Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. It lists colleges around the nation that are strict in their Catholic doctrine and their catholicism is a way of life...as it probably is in your own homes. I would just ask you to think about how parents who worry about whether or not their babies are eating organic baby foods and wearing organic clothing become parents who willing send their children off to bastions of liberal academia and excessive sin like lambs to the slaughter. If you love your children, you will always protect and defend them, no matter how old they are. They do not need to go through alcoholism, drug experimentation, "hook-ups", introduction to a group 1 carcinogen in the form of the birth control pill, std's, depression, and low self esteem to become wonderfully grounded young men and women - pillars in our society.
Here is the link to the Cardinal Newman Society:
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/
Here is the guide to Catholic colleges: Newman Guide
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