Answers for Teens

All content was taken from Josh McDowell’s The Teenage Q&A Book which answers over 230 questions teens ask about parents, self image, peer pressure, friends, dating, love, sex and abuse.
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- My Parents Have Always Told Me that I Would Never Amount to Anything. Why Has This Affected Me So Much?
- Why Must My Parents Embarass Me in Front of My Friends?
- Do I Have to Obey My Parents If They Aren’t Christians?
- Is It Wrong to Argue with Your Parents When You Know You Are Right?
- It’s So Hard to Talk to My Parents. When I Do, They Don’t Listen.
- Is It Right that I’m Forced to Go to Church Each Week?
- My Parents Never Believe Me. Any Suggestions?
- Why Do My Parents Make Such a Big Deal about My Hair and Clothes?
- Why Do Mom and Dad Talk about Getting a Divorce?
- Why don’t my parents like any of my friends?
- Why Do My Parents Think I’m Weird?
- Well, When I Was Your Age
- How Should I Respond When Someone Compliments me?
- What do You Mean by Self Image?
- How in the World Can I Be Like Jesus?
- Why Am I Always Comparing Myself to Everybody Else?
- Why Does God Love Me so Much?
- I Often Struggle With Doubts About My Salvation. Is That Normal?
- Isn’t a Healthy Self-Image the Same as Pride?
- Can God Stop Loving Me?
- My Boyfriend Keeps Telling Me to Trust Him.
- My Girlfriend Wants to Make Sure We are Sexually Compatible Before We Get Married. Is that Legitimate?
- I Have a Lot of Problems. My Friends Say I Should Try some Stuff. What do You Think?
- My Friends Keep Teasing Me That I Don’t Drink.
- I’ve Tried Saying “No” to My Friends, but I Keep Getting into Trouble. What Should I Do?
- My Friends Complain that I’m too Shy. They Think I Should Go Out Drinking With Them. What Should I do?
- If My Friends and I Have a Disagreement, What’s the Right Way to Handle It?
- How Can I Convince Someone of the Opposite Sex that I Really do Want to Be Just Good Friends?
- Why do My Best Friends and I Fight Over Little Things?
- How do I Know if a Friend is Good For Me or Not?
- How Can I Back Off From a Friendship that’s Not Good for Me?
- I Have Been Going Out With One Guy and Told Him I Wanted to Be Just Friends.
- Is Dating in the Bible?
- I’m Dating a Person Who is Frequently Jealous of Me. What Can We do About it?
- How do I Ask a Girl Out?
- How Can I Let a Guy Know I’m Interested in him Without Making a Complete Fool of Myself?
- What’s Wrong With Dating Non-Christians?
- I Have Such Strong Feelings for My Boyfriend
- What’s the Difference Between Love and Infatuation?
- Does God Have Just One Person Picked Out for Me to Marry, or Does He Have Several Possibilities for Me to Choose From?
- I’ve Experienced a Lot of Painful Rejection. It’s Affecting My Current Relationship. Is it Just Me?
- Is There Such a Thing As ‘Love at First Sight’ ?