For young adults, hooking up is all the rage

[setter]

The Christian, or virtuous life (for secularist), is not meant to be lived in isolation from like minded individuals. Degrading one’s self by “hooking up” in whatever manner or degree is a symptom of one who does not know their God given dignity. This almost always derives from a girl not feeling affirmed in healthy and wholesome manner by her father or similiar male caregiver.

 

[Rach620]

Being a Baby Boomer, I have to say that my observation is that most young adults are in way better moral shape than a lot of folks from my generation when we were their age. I’ve noticed a lot of these kids aren’t buying what we tried to sell them, and have more respect for their grandparents than they do for us. Also, the priests we have coming out of the seminaries are the best I’ve seen in my life. Things will get better, I’m sad to say, once my generation gets too old to have any influence on the culture. John Paul II hit the nail on the head with the “New Spring.”

Thanks for noticing! There really is a ‘new springtime’ in the Church right now, and I can see it in many of my friends. Even those who aren’t exactly on the ‘right path’ of Catholicism don’t seem to be buying what the modern world is selling them without questioning its goodness. In many cases at my university I can see in the students more hope than I do in the faculty, though I know this is not true everywhere or for everyone.

 

[johnpaul2_fan]

While I still do believe that “hooking up” or promiscuity is widespread, more so than some might think. (However I am from a state known for being very liberal, gay marriage, legal euthanasia of the suicidal, etc.) I think that todays youth are getting sick and tired of following what society is telling them will make them happy, because they just end up feeling empty and depressed.

(Noting on the college thing, I know for a fact that promiscuity is much less encouraged (at the very least) at a University or college that has the professors and university staff take an oath of fidelity to the Church. John Paul II asked for all Catholic university’s and collages to do this, however only a handful have.)

 

[Bobby_Jim]

Thanks to those who have replied that it is maybe not as common as the reports would have me believe. That gives me hope. It sounds like a really dismal way to behave.