SCRIPTURES
Soul Ties - One Flesh
Gen. 2:24 And shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Matt. 19:6 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
I Cor. 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
Curses - Bondage
Num. 5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing. Deut.28:48 Put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
30:7 And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies. Job 2:9 Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Acts 23:12 Certain of Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse.
23:14 We have bound ourselves under a great curse.
Gal. 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. Soul Ties - Witchcraft
Lev. 19:31 Regard not that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards. 20:6 I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off.
Bands - Bondage
Lev. 26:13 And I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Jud. 15:14 And his bands loosed from off his hands. Job 38:31 Or loose the bands of Orion?
39:5 Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
Psa. 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. 73:4 For there are no bands in their death. 107:14 And brake their bands in sunder.
119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me.
Prov. 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Ecc. 7:26 The woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands.
Isa. 28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong.
52:2 Loose thyself from bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 58:6 To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens. Eze. 4:8 And behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee.
Dan. 4:15 Leave stump of his roots in the earth, with band of iron and brass.
Hos. 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. Zech. 11:7 The one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands. 11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands.
Luke 8:29 He was kept bound with chains and in fetters; he brake the bands.
Col. 2:19 From which all the body by joints and bands, and knit together. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GENERATION MAKES
CHANGES IN 25 YEARS Americans are waiting longer to marry today, more are getting divorced, resulting in more single-parent families - as many as 60% among blacks, according to 3 reports issued last week by the Census Bureau.
While the man-and-wife family with 1 or more children remains the norm, it is a tradition that is rapidly eroding. Divorced persons have risen to 130 per 1,000 married persons, compared with just 35 in 1960, and the proportion of 1-parent families of all races has more than doubled from 13% in 1970 to 28% last year.
Commenting on the causes, Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute said he doesn't think the fault is so much with economics as with "trickle-down morality."
"The elites of the country changed their behavior, at least outward manifestations, in the 1950's and everyone else is following. Across the board there has been a total loosening of the old Puritan standards by which we grew up," he said.
"People today value early marriage less, value having children less, and value having a career of their own, and some fun before settling down, more highly," Besharov declared. Details (202) 862-5800 - From Association Trends.
ARE ADOLESCENTS VALUED RESOURCES?
Violence and injury account for three out of four adolescent deaths. More than three out of 10 adolescents who die are killed in motor vehicle accidents. Half of these involve alcohol.
The homicide rate has doubled among 10- to 14-year-olds during the past 20 years. Homicide is the leading cause of death among black 15- to 19- year-olds.
Most 10- to 19-year-old homicide victims are killed with guns. In 1987, firearms accounted for 68 percent of the 1,744 adolescent murders. Eighteen percent of those adolescents were killed with knives and other cutting instruments. Fourteen percent were killed with clubs, beaten to death or strangled.
Child abuse and child neglect increased 74 percent in the last 10 years. Over the past 20 years, suicide tripled among 10- to 14-year-olds and doubled among 15- to 19-year-olds. Whites are three times more likely than blacks to kill themselves.
There are important sex differences in attempted and completed suicide. Adolescent girls are four to five times more likely than boys to attempt suicide, while boys are more likely to succeed, mainly because they choose more lethal methods. Girls generally use pills. Boys tend to hang themselves or use guns.
Approximately 92 percent of high school seniors have consumed alcohol at least once, 50 percent have tried marijuana and 15 percent have tried cocaine.
Adolescents who currently drink alcohol are 10 times more likely than non- drinkers to use marijuana and 11 times more likely to use cocaine.
By the time they are 18 years old, 65 percent of boys and 51 percent of girls are sexually active. Approximately 50 percent of American
adolescents do not use contraceptives the first time they have intercourse. Half of premarital pregnancies occur within the first six months of sexual activity.
One in four sexually active high school students will get a sexually transmitted disease before graduating.
Mental disorders account for 32 percent of the disabilities among 10- to 18-year-olds. It is estimated that 5 million children and adolescents need mental health services but do not receive them.
Approximately 5 percent of adolescents are clinically obese and between 5 percent and 25 percent are overweight.
Pain during menstruation affects almost half of all female adolescents and is a leading cause of school absenteeism.
About one in four high school seniors approves of heavy cigarette smoking and one or two drinks a day. One in five approves of trying cocaine. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the parents of 8- to 17-year-olds think drugs are not a problem.