Has Prom Night Turned Into Wedding Night?
Posted by Pat White at 5/4/2008 10:46 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
This one has me fuming at the temples. Careful as you read on, you might see smoke coming out of your computers. I was watching a program recently about Prom night and was amazed at how it's turned into this grand all night affair where youngsters are expected to loose their virginity, if they had not already. What makes this more outrageous is that parents are enabling this behavior by renting hotels and providing alcohol to propel the night's events. Have we all really lost our minds? Are we that bored, that we are grasping at any excuse to throw a party?
Yes, youngsters graduating from high school calls for celebration, but when did prom night turn into honeymoon night? It used to be the pressures of prom night were finding a good date and a fabulous dress, now the pressures of prom night are much, much more. Kids and parents are going way, overboard about prom night. Its as if they are defeating the purpose and taking the fun out of it, with all the stresses involved. Whatever happen to going to prom, having some good food, some drinks, and dancing the night away with your classmates? People just seem to be looking for a higher high and are seeking a greater thrill, and in so doing end up in reckless behavior. Forget the amount of money they are willing to shell out over this.
Throwing teenagers together in a hotel room with alcohol is nothing less than asking for trouble. Have we forgotten about the youngster who was given a very lengthy sentencing (some twenty-odd years) for statutory rape which took place at one of these hotel room parties. It just so happened that this person had consensual sex with a 14 year old girl but of course she was under aged. Thank goodness Al Sharpton and others stepped in to protest the lengthy sentencing. As I understand it, the young man is now attending college and trying to get on with his life. I am sure he regrets the recklessness of that night.
Parents, as prom season approaches, (if you have a son or daughter graduating) please have a firm hand in your child's Prom Party plans. Please stop enabling and going along with this stupid and reckless behavior. If the students want to throw a party after the prom, plan it at a parent's house or rent some hall as you would any other party and make sure there is adult supervision. Give them some privacy as young adults, but make sure there are adults around to check up on them every so often. They might be graduating high school, but their sense of good judgment still might not be fully developed as yet.
I told my kids they will not attend prom or any celebratons associated with it because I am disgusted with how prom has become more important than marriage. This is one of the ways the devil distroys our society.
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It has gotten out of hand, hasn't it. Thanks for doing your part in reigning this behavior in.
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