Teens Hug Each Other. Everybody Panic
That’s right, there is a new trend sweeping the nations high schools, experts call it “hugging,” The act includes young boys and girls putting their arms around each other and holding for sometimes more then three seconds, where is the outrage?
Right Here.
this “grassroots phenomenon” is cheapening the value and distorting the original intention of the hug. One Montvale mother told the Times, “I hug people I’m close to. But now you’re hugging people you don’t even know. Hugging used to mean something.”
- NJ.com – Is Hugging Bad for Teens?
and here
A measure of how rapidly the ritual is spreading is that some students complain of peer pressure to hug to fit in. And schools from Hillsdale, N.J., to Bend, Ore., wary in a litigious era about sexual harassment or improper touching — or citing hallway clogging and late arrivals to class — have banned hugging or imposed a three-second rule.
- The New York Times – For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’
Yes, this “ritual” is spreading, do you know who your kids are hugging? If you are lucky your child school will act like many across the nation and impose a hugging ban, meaning your child will not be able to show any affection towards another human being while at a learning institution. This story is so important the NBC Nightly News filed this report.
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I swear this was a story on The Onion a few years back…
Sounds like it should be shouldn’t it.. but alas today it is not, it is the new reality.
When I was in high school in the ’80s, everyone hugged. It struck me as generally insincere then, and it strikes me the same way now. But at least it’s not freakish and disturbing — like, say, a bunch of adults getting alarmed by teen hugging and another bunch of adults deciding that said hugging is a newsworthy trend.
[...] I’m all for safe, sober sex. But can you really ask 300 teenagers six questions about their drinking habits and then offer up a well-informed, published conclusion? 34 percent of the teens polled were having “sexual contact,” and 16 percent were high-risk users. Which means a lot of sober youth are getting freaky, too. Then again, the study didn’t offer a definition for sexual contact. Maybe those sober teens were just hugging? [...]