by Camden Morgante | Sep 5, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Welcome to a new season on the Bare Marriage blog! We’re about to begin a new series, starting tomorrow, on obligation sex–how to understand it and get over it. But before we do that, I received this great article by Dr. Camden Morgante (known as Dr....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 14, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Let’s use a real-life example of purity culture double standards: Brio Magazine Yesterday on the podcast Rebecca and I read excerpts from old copies of Focus on the Family’s Brio magazine, aimed at teen girls 12-16. We wanted you to hear first hand what...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 13, 2023 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
It’s our 200th episode! And we wanted to celebrate by doing something that matters to Rebecca–and to so many of you. We wanted to read some back issues of Brio Magazine, the magazine for preteen and teen girls published by Focus on the Family that...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 9, 2023 | Parenting Teens
She should know that Jesus is not a Jealous Boyfriend. In our book She Deserves Better, we have 32 headings that start “She Should Know…” 32 things that girls need to know, in the very fiber of their being, to dispel a lot of the harmful things we...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 31, 2023 | Parenting Teens
Are we missing something if we save kissing for marriage? One of the tenets of purity culture was that all physical contact–even kissing–should be saved for marriage. It wasn’t just that sex is for marriage. It was that kissing was too. Some couples...
