PERSONAL AND FAMILIAL PROBLEMS OF HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS AND THEIR BEARING UPON FAMILY EDUCATION NEEDS.

The article focuses on the personal and familial problems of high school youths in an effort to determine the needs of family education for minimizing or ameliorating such problems. High school students normally date occasionally or often. As a rule, those youths who seldom or never date, those who date occasionally but feel the need of dating more frequently, and those who are engaged or married are facing problems and circumstances, which are not confronted by the average boy and girl. In other words, over one-fourth of all high school students are confronted with the complex problems associated with premature courtships, engagements, and marriages. In the view of the changing sex mores, this indicates that an excessively large number of young people are probably assuming the existence of freedoms between the sexes which society in general and parents and youth leaders in particular do not feel are conducive to permanent and stable married life. These conditions indicate that family education should place more emphasis upon helping youths see the importance of emotional, economic, educational, and social maturity before engagement and marriage, on the one hand, and the relativity of the values which they now place upon going steady, dating, and the romantic complex in general.