Five Cries of Youth

"Surprise! Some people who know how to interview, poll, and amass data about high school youth also know how to listen to them, to interpret their 'cries' to the adult world - The Christian Century

"From extensive questionnaires of young people comes an attractive response to their most urgent needs. An excellent aid for parents and church youth workers." - Christianity Today

"A stirring study." - Baptist Standard

"A warm, human-sounding report. Dr. Strommen makes the computer do the kind of straight-and statistically indisputable-talking that youth pastors, teachers, parents, or anyone concerned with young people ought to hear - Christian Herald

"Anyone relating to youth today will find this book a 'must.' - Buffalo Courier-Express

The result of a 420-item survey of over 7,000 young people across the country, Five Cries of Youth tells how church young people feel about God, themselves, the church, their families, the state of the world, sex and love, and their own vision of the future. Merton P. Strommen has completed the most extensive nationwide report ever done among high-school age church youth in America, including youth from Presbyterian, United Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, and other churches. Here at last is a complete picture of church young people: who they are, what they want, what troubles them-and how others can respond.