I recently read some responses by college students to parental outcries they heard about co-ed housing and how it was just a set up to foster immoral behavior amongst college students. The premise of the students' arguments was that if it was going to happen it was going to happen with or without co-ed dorms. If students are going to be sexually active they are going to be regardless of whether they live in same-sex or co-ed dorms. The greater convenience doesn't necessarily equate to greater likelihood. "It is an individual’s own choice and morals that influence sexual behavior, not coed living arrangements. If a student is sexually active, it is not necessarily the result of coed housing."
It's not a secret that parents worry about their children while they are away at college. College is a time for more temptations than they have experienced before. However, it's up to the student to decide what values they want to continue to uphold (although to many parents dismay, some of these may be gone long before they get to college anyway) and which they want to continue to stand for. If a student chooses to be sexually active in college, it's their choice, not the choice of co-ed housing. "College students are emerging adults, capable of making their own decisions of morality."
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