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Program Pays Girls $1 Per Day To Not Get Pregnant
- WXII12.com
The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies.
Extramarital Affairs, Like Sanford’s, Morally Taboo
- GALLUP
There is also a slight difference between men's views and women's views on extramarital affairs; 8% of men say they are acceptable, compared to 3% of women. And despite the conventional wisdom that young Americans may be more morally libertine than those who are older, 18- to 29-year-olds in the Gallup survey are little different in their views on the moral acceptability of extramarital affairs than are those 30 years of age and up.
Court upholds Va. abortion ban
- The Washington Times
A sharply divided federal appeals court upheld Virginia's ban on partial-birth abortion Wednesday, ruling that the statute does not unduly burden a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy by more conventional means.
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 Rap music sags in popularity
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After decades of glamorizing drug-deals, violence and prostitution, sales of rap music slid 21% from 2005-2006. For the first time in 12 years, no rap album made it on the top ten seller list. In a recent poll, 50% of black Americans said "hip-hop was a negative force in American society". Does what you listen to impact who you are?
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According to Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, a professor at Vanderbilt University, most young black women felt rappers portrayed other women in their songs. "They're not calling me a b_ _ _ _, they're not taking about me, they're talking about those women," she said. "But then it became clear that, you know what? Those women can be any women." How do negative stereotypes affect our image of people in society? How do they affect our image of ourselves?
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See Proverbs 4:23 and Mark 7: 21-23. How do you think our thoughts sink into our hearts? Why is it important to "guard your heart"?
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See Philippians 4: 8-9. Why does Paul encourage us to fill our minds with these kinds of thoughts?
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Many Americans feel rap music encourages negative thoughts about black culture and the value of women. Name some other ways you think our culture influences us(ideas about fashion, body image, acceptable language, acceptable behavior, etc.).
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See Hebrews 4: 12-13. How do you use the Bible as a standard to judge music, movies and video games? What kinds of questions should you ask about them?
- See James 1: 5. What should you do when you aren't sure about something?
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