Cultural Adolescence or Biblical Youth: a Religious Parent’s Challenge

Introduction In the last century, social and cultural changes in Western culture and America in particular have drastically altered parenting for religious homes, both Jewish and Christian. This paper will address the specific challenge posed by the emergence and extension of Adolescence as a distinct lifecycle stage, and the problems it presents to a biblical lifecycle. The Jewish people are unique in the world in one important way. They are a people specifically chosen by God to serve as a light to the nations. The biblical texts both express this function and serve to reinforce this