Building on the Why True Love Waits campaign and up-to-the-minute research from Josh's "Bare Facts" resources, the McDowells offer rock-solid advice for parents in a shifting-sands culture. Learn to gauge your child's emotional and spiritual readiness; stay alert to questions and opportunities; frame sex and sexuality in a biblical context; and more.

In Straight Talk with Your Kids About Sex, Josh and Dottie McDowell draw on their decades-long love and concern for youth. Building on the "Why True Love Waits" campaign and utilizing up-to-the-minute research from Josh's "The Bare Facts" resources, the McDowells provide a compact, easy-to-use guide to support parents in

• putting sex and sexuality in a biblical context of relationship to God
• gauging their child's emotional and spiritual readiness
• being alert to questions and opportunities
• being direct and open without violating their child's emotions
• proactively shaping their child's worldview in today's sex-saturated culture

Working from their own experience with four children, Josh and Dottie give readers encouragement and solid information in the sometimes-awkward process of guiding their child into a healthy understanding of God's gift of sex.

Josh McDowell has been reaching the spiritually skeptical for more than five decades. Since beginning ministry in 1961, Josh has delivered more than 24,000 talks to over 10 million young people in 118 countries. He is the author or coauthor of 130 books, with over 51 million copies distributed worldwide, including Straight Talk with Your Kids About Sex, Experience Your Bible, Evidence for the Historical Jesus, More Than a Carpenter (over 15 million copies printed in 85 languages), and The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, recognized by World magazine as one of the twentieth century's top 40 books. Josh continues to travel throughout the United States and countries around the world, helping young people and adults strengthen their faith and understanding of Scripture. Josh will tell you that his family is his ministry. He and his wife, Dottie, have been married for over 40 years and have four children and numerous grandchildren. Dottie McDowell has been married to Josh for over 40 years. She has written several children’s books with her husband, and she and Josh are enjoying their four adult children and numerous grandchildren as he continues to travel worldwide in his ministry. Dottie and Josh live in Southern California.

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