Chapter 9 How Can I Cope With Peer Pressure? AT THE age of 14, Karen was already a heavy drug user and regularly engaged in sex. By age 17, Jim was a confirmed alcoholic and living an immoral life. Both admit they did not really like the life they were living nor the things they were [...]

Chapter 8 How Can I Make Real Friends? “I’VE been going to school in this district for eight years, but in all that time I’ve never managed to make one single friend! Not one.” So lamented a youth named Ronny. And perhaps at times you have similarly felt like a failure at friendship. But just [...]

Chapter Nine Single-Parent Families Can Succeed! ONE-PARENT families have been called “the fastest growing family style” in the United States. The situation is similar in many other lands. A record number of divorces, desertions, separations, and illegitimate births have had far-reaching consequences for millions of parents and children. 2 “I am a 28-year-old widow with [...]

Chapter 9 There Is Someone Higher HAVE you ever heard anyone say, “I wish I were a grown-up so I could do anything I wanted”?— Have you ever wished that?— It is true that grown-ups can do some things that children cannot. But none of us can make all our own rules for life. There [...]