TOUGH REALITIES FACED BY THE YOUTH

Among High School Students

• 17% of High School Students 13-15 years old said they ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE at least once.

• 12% said they SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED ATTEMPTING SUICIDE.

• 11% have made plans on how they would COMMIT SUICIDE.
• Social Media Envy is “A MODERATE SIGNIFICANT PREDICTOR OF
SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION” among Filipino High School students.

Source: According to the Global School-Based Student Health Survey from January to March 2015
 TOUGH REALITIES FACED BY THE YOUTH
• 1 in 10 Filipino women aged 15-19 is already a MOTHER.

• 17% of high school students 13-15 years old ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

• 8 in 10 Filipino youths have suffered PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE.

• Eighty percent (80%) of teenagers aged 13 to 16 have been CYBERBULLIED through

social media.

• Estimate of 4.8 million Filipinos aged 10-69 years old used ILLEGAL DRUGS at least
ONCE in their lives.

Source: Final results from the 2013 National Demographic Health Survey; Global School-Based Student Health Survey from January to March 2015; Report by Philippine authorities and the United
Nations Children’s Fund; Manila Bulletin Dec 2016; 2015 Survey by Child-Care Non-Profit Stairway Foundation Inc.; 2015 Nationwide Survey on the Nature and Extent of Drug Abuse in the
Philippines; Rappler Sept 2016
#RelationshipGoals
Unhealthy relationships hurt
almost every aspect of our life.
People don’t know how to love the
right way.
 We can’t properly love ourselves and
others if we don’t know what love really is.
We can’t properly love ourselves
and others if we don’t know what
love really is.
LOVE is a commitment directed towards
imperfect people, to seek their highest
good, which often requires sacrifice.
1. LOVE IS A COMMITMENT
 LOVE test
Patient
Kind
Not envy
Not self-seeking
Not easily angered
Keeps no records of wrongs
Difficult
Demanding
Disappointing
Destructive

2. DIRECTED TOWARDS IMPERFECT

PEOPLE
Right love involves acceptance with a
right response.
 Hindi ko kayong baguhin ang ibang
tao pero kaya kong baguhin sarili ko.
LOVE is a commitment directed towards
imperfect people, to seek their highest
good, which often requires sacrifice.
3. TO SEEK THEIR HIGHEST GOOD
 1 Corinthians 13:6

Love does not delight in

evil but rejoices with the
truth.
 1 Corinthians 13:7

It always protects, always trusts,

always hopes, always
perseveres.
God accepts our imperfections but He will
not allow us to stay that way.
LOVE is a commitment directed towards
imperfect people, to seek their highest
good, which often requires sacrifice.
4. WHICH OFTEN REQUIRES SACRIFICE
 Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his own love for us

in this: While we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.
 John 13:34

“A new command I give you: Love one

another. As I have loved you, so you must
love one another.
LOVE is a commitment directed towards
imperfect people, to seek their highest
good, which often requires sacrifice.
Pliny the Younger
 Letter of Pliny the Younger

…the sum and substance of their fault or

error had been that they were
accustomed to meet on a fixed day before
dawn and sing responsively a hymn to
Christ as to a god
 Letter of Pliny the Younger

and to bind themselves by oath, not to

some crime, but not to commit fraud,
theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor
to refuse to return a trust when called
upon to do so.
Hospitals were made
Orphanages were constructed
Slavery abolished
Women treated better
Families restored
Lives became better
 John 13:34

“A new command I give you: Love one

another. As I have loved you, so you must
love one another.
 RIGHT LOVE LEADS TO
HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS