Family Life

I have one of those stereotypical Catholic families, 7 kids and 2 happily married parents. you never hear about families like that anymore. why is that?
don't you agree that it's a little sad that the world doesn't respect marriage like it used to? marriage used to be this wonderful, sought after, looked up to, respected things, and now it's just another level in a relationship. why are people of this generation and the one before so afraid of committment? it's this go-go-go society we live in. with cell phones and computers and tv's we're taught to learn what we can with what we have at all times all the time. and i think that that's a great thing, but it shouldn't be something to hinder our ability to act with one another. young people are losing their ability to talk to one another unless it's through a text screen or over a facebook chat. they're slowly losing their ability to smile without a smileyface or saying 'lol' afterwards. respect for our peers and elders? out the window. i'm ashamed of my generation to be quite honest. adults are beginning to expect this lack of social skills among the young people of today and that is when we know we've done wrong. when they give up and give in to the high demands of the younger. when i was a kid and my grandpa would watch us for our parents date nights he would spank me for saying no to him. and while i don't condone beating children in any form, i do support spankings, not with belts or rings, but a swift swat on the behind is what made me respect my elders and that's all i needed. spankings slowly went away with my family, as brother after little brother came along the spankings went away and each of my brothers is more roudy and unruly than the last. after polling friends and strangers about whether or not they received spankings as children, i found that the numbers overwhelmingly supported disciplining your children, while over and under disciplining had extrememly negative effects on a child.
but that's not what i'm here to talk about. i'm here to talk about the family, and while spankings are relevant, they aren't my main focus. my main focus is to talk about openness to life. as in, unprotected sex. this is something many teenagers LOVE to talk about. condoms is one of the most spoken words around college and even high school ages youth. i'm 18 years old and i can tell you that people my age are too young for sex. yes i said it, teens are too young for sex. people think that they're old enough for sex, but let's review the reasons sex is in the world for the first part. animals have sex for reproductions purposes, humans are the only animals who try to get in the way of that. and why is that? because humans are selfish animals. they would rather tease their hormones and bodies to have a few hours of 'fun' instead of save it for the one person they marry. and then they get pregnant and freak out because they didn't think this could happen.