The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Remember, your mind is your ultimate personal computer.  Sometimes you might forget to turn on your mental virus protection program, allowing negative thoughts to invade your mind — without you realizing it.  The computer adage “Garbage in, garbage out” as it applies to your mind should really be “Garbage in, garbage stays.”
Your mind never sleeps.  [...]

We must all remember the old saying “Choose your words carefully” as a warning of the impact of our words on others and ourselves.   Once we speak or hear certain words, they become programmed into our minds.  It’s not what we say, but what we repeatedly say.  The words we repeat are gradually convincing our [...]

“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist and Holocaust Survivor
Some people measure their success by financial security, career growth, community involvement, quality of relationships, spiritual centeredness or the leagacy [...]

No matter what today’s “it’s not my fault” culture encourages, we are all ultimately responsible for our own choices.  In fact, I like to write the word responsibility as response - ability.  As humans, we have the unique ability to respond.  It is a choice we make, although many times and instantaneous or subconscious choice.
When [...]

I just read a report from CWA that this year alone, 15.3 MILLION Americans will contract a NEW sexually transmitted disease.  2-4 MILLION of those will be teenagers!  That means that every day, 8,000 teens contract a NEW STD.  Not to mention any they already had. 
Hello?!?!  And what do our states, governments and health centers [...]

A HUGE thanks from parents all over the country goes out to Joanna Respold who in her blog entry of 1/23/09 stood up to Henry Waxman and his sexualization of the children of America.  It’s awesome to see a young lady who seems to have it all together get up and tell the World that [...]

Well, duh.  After 15 years of providing abstinence education, 26 states have turned back Title V funds used to teach abstinence until marriage education.  Is it any wonder why the teen birth rate is up?  The kids today are learning that it’s okay to have sex, as long as you are protected.  True protection means [...]

I recently read this article in Life Issues Connector.  The author, Mary Beth Bonacci wrote this heartfelt “letter” to the man she hopes to marry some day.   She stated how she didn’t know how he was living his life today, but it matters to her because it determines the kind of man he would become [...]

A recent Vatican paper stated that the birth control pill is causing “devastating” environmental damage and plays a role in rising male infertility rates.  The source for this is http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/09000333.htm

Keith Deltano sent out the following to us last week–

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A SIXTH GRADER?
 
    I taught sixth grade math for several years, so I will format these questions at that level.  I believe the average sixth grader could answer the following questions, can you?  Double click the graph for a larger [...]