Statewide Chair Mary McLellan Heritage Community Services Regional Chairs Mariscia Cooper (Pee Dee) Charlie Lybrand (Lowcountry) Lenna Neill (Upstate) Rev. Randy Riddle (Grand Strand) Dr. Roger Rollins (CSRA) Charlotte Valentine-Green (Ace Basin)   Advisory Council Eugene Bacote Darlington School District Dr. Vera Bailey Hilton Head Preg. Care Center Pamela Berry Colleton Fire and Rescue Dr. Vonda Calcutt Lowcountry Ctr. Diabetes Sen. Chip Campsen Charleston/Berkeley Rev. Chuck Coward Charleston Outreach Robin Crosby Colleton County Ligure Ellington Ret.Capt. Charleston City Police Dr. Randy Goings Chiropractic Physician Faye Hill Lowcountry Pregnancy Center & SC Association Pregnancy Care Centers WC Hoecke Fatherhood Practioner Leroy Lewis Upward Bound at Cof C Norman L. Moore, Jr. Colonel, USAFR(Ret) Cyndi Mosteller Comm. for Higher Education Alexia Newman Carolina Pregnancy Center Fred Payne Marriage Savers of Upstate Jerry & Barbara Seymour R& R Marriage Min. Ronald Shoupe Colleton County Dr. A. V. Strong A Better Way, Inc. (Gang Out) Dr. Robert Thomas Pulmonary Medicine Pastor Phil Thrailkill St. Luke UMC Hartsville Kelly Walker Upstate Fatherhood Coalition	October 28, 2010 SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   20-Somethings Growing Up - Slowly Our culture expects young adults to get out on-their-own after high school, but we now know that brain development is extensive during those subsequent young adult years.   Our children are turned out of the house at age five now, hoping the government knows more about raising them than we do (where on earth did we get that idea?), and then we almost blindly hope they are equipped to make it on their own, starting at age 18 - in college, in the military, or in the world of work. If they fail to negotiate the world skillfully, we are shocked!   This long article, What is it about 20-somethings?, explores the subject of how our young adults are making it, or not. What is our role in preparing and protecting young adults from the currently upside-down way of doing life: have or make a baby, drop out of school, work or get on welfare, and then maybe think about who you might want to marry.   We believe the core family unit, and the extended family, are very much needed during those years, to compete with the ideas being foisted upon the young adult's mind and heart.  Yet, the world wants them badly, and mocks the support system that would lead them more safely through the pitfalls they almost assuredly will encounter.   Parents are seldom recognized as playing a vital and continuing role in the part of the young adult's life and, as is reflected in this article, are almost considered a resented crutch in the life of the expected-to-be-self-sufficient young adult.  Yet parents and the extended family are so necessary to the passing of the torch to the next generation.   As is the case for the middle and high school students Heritage serves, there appears to be a need for programs that are not centered on academics alone, but that help young adults through the mire as they struggle to make their way...programs that are on the parent's side, that are cheering for the young adult, to continue instilling the lessons most parents hope their youngsters picked up - or are picking up - along the way.    Read Politics, Pseudo-Science and Sex Ed…   Read Planned Parenthood Misrepresents CDC Report on Teen Births, Abstinence   Read Obama Admin Relents, Posts Pro-Abstinence Education Study After Complaints     School-based sex ed program outrages mother of teen girl who received birth control -Mother didn't know of program operating out of Burke High School   A Charleston County mother and her 14-year-old daughter were spending some quality time together one Sunday evening when the conversation turned to sex.  Read more…     Parental Rights: Protecting Children by Empowering Parents Find out more about how your rights as parents are in grave danger.  Join the network and support the mission.    “ParentalRights.org envisions a nation where the vital child-parent relationship is protected and preserved. Our campaign exists to secure a constitutional amendment that defends the rights of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children. At ParentalRights.org, we believe that no government, regardless of how well-intentioned it might be, can replace the love and nurture of a parent in the life of a child. It’s a relationship worth protecting.”     Save Abstinence Education in South Carolina! Donate Today!     Follow the SC-HFF Coalition on Twitter! Join the Heritage Keepers® Facebook Cause
	The South Carolina Healthy Family Formation Coalition (SC HFF Coalition) is organized and staffed by Heritage Community Services. The SC HFF Coalition promotes child and family well-being by providing opportunities for statewide communication about such issues as: adolescent pregnancy, unwed childbearing, fatherlessness, sexual exploitation of our youth, dating violence and domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, gang activity and youth violence.    Coalition members support healthy family formation initiatives that integrate character-based life skills, teen pregnancy prevention with an emphasis on abstinence-centered education, and the importance of fidelity-within-marriage.   Together we can impact our culture so that forming healthy families becomes a norm, rather than the exception, for South Carolina. Please, forward this E-News to interested friends, family and colleagues and ask them to consider joining the Coalition. Join/Subscribe Unsubscribe PRIVACY POLICY: Information you share will never be sold, rented, or given to any third party. Contact Mary McLellan , Statewide Chairman (843)654-7740 ext.122