YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS
Youth in Action: Lead By Example
Fargo, ND – Oak Grove High School
9am—3pm (registration beginning at 8am)
September 22, 2010
Space is limited – CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM
QUOTE
“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling – it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever.”
- Eric Fromm
FAST FACT OF THE MONTH
In 2008, girls aged 10-19 years accounted for about 30% of all chlamydia infections reported in the United States.
Reference: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2008. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; November 2009. Available at: http://cdc.gov/std/stats08/main.htm. Accessed: 2009 November 24. (Calculation based on data in Table 10.)
HPV Common in Sexually Active Male College Students (Reuters Health – 2007)
Chlamydia Damages Male Fertility (BBC News – 2007)
Romances With Wolves (for guys) (Anonymous)
Did You Know…
Men who smoke are 4 times more likely to develop penile cancer than those who do not smoke. Smokers who have HPV infections have an even higher risk. Smoking exposes your body to many cancer-causing chemicals. These harmful substances are inhaled into the lungs, where they are absorbed into the blood. While in the bloodstream, they can travel throughout the body to cause cancer in many different areas. Researchers believe that these substances damage the DNA of cells in the penis, which can lead to the development of penile cancer. (Taken from the American Cancer Society website on December 3, 2008)
The 7 Benefits of Marriage for Men
1) Healthy Children, 2) Healthy Marriages Lead to Strong Relationships With Children 3) Better Family Finances 4) Fuller, Happier Lives 5) A Long Healthy Life 6) More, Better, and Safer Sex 7) Increased Faithfulness
What helped you keep it together? You were in your 20s, still relatively young, when ‘Footloose’ came out. You’ve been working steadily since then, but you haven’t had a particularly scandalous life.
“I come from a very, very strong family. And I think that I just somehow instinctively knew that I had to find something that was more important than the movies. I think if you make movies or your career – television, whatever it is – your whole life, and that’s what everyone’s going to want you to do – that when it stops going well, which inevitably it will at some point, then you’re kind of left with nothing to keep yourself together. Nothing to fall back on.
“If you really feel like your only family is every family that you create as you step into a new project, then you have to get rid of family after family after family. I think it really starts to take its toll.
“Having real friends, not Hollywood friends, and real family who are not necessarily connected to the industry or your work. Just having something outside of your work, yoga or God or mountain climbing… or a dog… that’s what you have to find.”
Is that philosophy part of what makes your marriage so successful, especially by stereotypical Hollywood standards?
“Yeah, it is. We make each other and our children a priority. That’s the beginning and end of it. And then, once we’re coming from that place, we’re doing our best and flying all over and traveling, and trying to make the most of our careers that we possibly can. We’ve never done a thing where we say, ‘Well, let’s take a year off and just do nothing.’ There’s never been the case of either one of us. We’ve always had our eyes on the prize and tried to stay focused. But I think that we do make [our family] the priority.”
