Sexpectations

Helping the Next Generation Navigate Healthy Relationships

Barb Winters

• Publisher: Leafwood Publishers
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684268832
• Print ISBN:
  9781684262120

Distorted views of intimate relationships abound. Let's offer youth a better option.
Social media, television, and the Internet feed destructive information to tweens, teens, and young adults. Hookup culture, the acceptance of sending nudes, and rampant pornography contribute to unrealistic sexual expectations. At what cost?
Barb Winters addresses the heavy loads of anxiety, worry, and depression among young people. She offers practical advice for presenting healthier options. Today's youth are eager, passionate, and impressionable. They look to parents, grandparents,youth leaders and other trusted adults for direction. Sexpectations will help equip you to make a difference and be part of the solution:
• Discover factors contributing to the declining health of relationships.
• Examine consequences of a "casual sex is acceptable" societal attitude.
• Explore four foundational attributes of healthy relationships based on God's Word: love, selflessness, mutuality, and communication.
• Uncover biblical principles for healing from wounds caused by abnormal sexual behaviors.
• Find out how you and your child can restore, reconcile, and maintain healthy relationships.
• Learn how to have effective and ongoing conversations with the youth in your life about pornography, hookup culture, nudes, and God's design for sex.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• SECTION 1 The Deterioration of Relationships
• SECTION 2 Habits for Healthy Relationships
• SECTION 3 Recovery and Restoration
• Acknowledgments
• Notes