The reasons why I believe Sexual Sin might be enhanced by Overprotective parents and Child Labor Laws:

First start with cultural description of Man:
Historic View(Jewish) – Boy becomes a man at age 13, Usually married a woman soon after that(who would also be around that age). Also man was required to provide for their family to give him a sense of responsibility and importance.
Our Current View(America) – Boy becomes a man around 24.. That seems to be about where people are okay with him getting married, 18 at the least. Being married at 21, I know that people placed weight on my shoulders not to get married because of my youth. But 21 is 6-8 years after historic Jewish people did.

So now back to how Sexual sins might be enhanced by these two ideas. First is Child labor laws, a kid isn’t allowed to have a real job until he’s 16, not allowed to get a good job until 18, and not allowed to get a great job until about 21.. So lets go back a little, a kid is a man at 13.. which means 3 years of experience in the workforce by the time he’s 16, which means he could have a work ethic drilled into him easier(No more placing Video Games above work because it’s required of you!) This work ethic can lead to a man to have a great job 3 years earlier(18) instead of 21. So whoa right? I must be some kind of person that doesn’t care about kids or something right? Absolutely no, I have been working with Kids my whole life and realize that a lot of their potential is ruined by people not letting them do what they can do. Alright.. back on track..
Now what does this have to do with Sexual Sins? First it helps instill the importance of taking care of a family and providing, you will notice that once adults separate from the younger crowd they seem more understanding of having to provide for themselves and providing for their future, but because men and women are kept from working, they can’t learn this experience until they’ve already started their rebelling and anger from being caged like some kind of animal, Put them to work! So now that leads to the next thought, if a person learns more about being responsible for their actions, wouldn’t that protect them from being so extreme with their sexual experiences? Think of this, a kid knowing at age 14 that in order to provide for his family, he will need to work 40 hours a week and have a smaller allowance for personal things might help detour a kid from willing to bet his earnings on out of wedlock sex with the possibility of dealing with being a parent. Now I’m not saying this is the Godly reason, just a logical one, however, the more responsible you are as a Christian(which should start as soon as you become one) the less likely you are to gamble with things that you shouldn’t.
Now for the over protective parents, I kind of hinted at this earlier. Parents have to allow their kids to get married before they are out of being Minors. So what does this mean? If you’re under 18, you have to get an okay to be married, we get lucky if parents even let us think about it before we’re 18! But here’s the problem, you can have a sexually frustrated man or woman at age 13… push it to 18.. you’re pushing for sin on them. This kind of “torture” on a man who has a sexual desire but no wife or husband to help with that frustration because his parents haven’t taught him to live on his own nor let him get married. Now the main idea that came to mind when I thought of this was the not allowing them to get married but the more and more I thought about it, over protective parents cause that and also harm the man in opportunities to be an adult. If you are considered as an adult and treated as one, you can be one. If they continue to treat you like a 8 year old kid and you’re 22, there’s a problem! Many parents don’t promote adult behavior in their kids, some kids are allowed to live at home until their 25 or older not because they are needed but because the parents don’t make them act their age! I cannot start a family or move out on my own if I’m not pushed by the people who I live with to do so.

Now one might come up with all sorts of reasons for neglectful parents, I am not saying that neglecting your children is a good thing, nor that they aren’t at fault either. But that these two things in my opinion are some causing factors.
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