Girls today are growing up in a “moral abyss,” says Dr. Helen Wright, telling an annual conference in Britain that she is greatly concerned by the “erosion of the innocence of childhood in the 21st Century.”
Dr. Helen Wright
Indeed, society must wake up ”to the profound damage we have inflicted” on today’s girls “due to creating a society that is highly sexualized,” agreed Andrea Williams, chief executive officer of Christian Concern.
Dr. Wright, president of Britain’s Girls Schools Association and headmistress of the exclusive boarding school for girls, St Mary’s, called for a return to Christian ethics.
“What hope have we got of safeguarding our children’s sacred childhood if they are knocked off their feet on the nursery slopes of life by an avalanche of images and malign influences?” she told the girls association conference. “And make no mistake, this is what is happening.
“It is time to take up the drawbridge of the liberal dogma of the past which has left
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posted November 25, 2011 at 10:13 am
I am 73 years old. When I was young, we did not always obey the rules, but we knew what the rules were. Hearing some young people today, I have a feeling that they have no idea that there are any rules for personal behavior.
posted December 8, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Christian values and ethics are really Biblical ethics. The Jewish faith (not the liberal secularism that is sometimes mistaken for Jewish values) would totally agree with Dr. Wright’s. As long as those “Christian values” don’t result in persecution of Jews, I’m for it 100 per cent. The reason I say this is becuase I remember having rocks thrown at me when I rode my bike past the local cathedral, and the loss of my best friend in elementary school when he “found out” that the Jews “killed Jesus.”