The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

This morning I read this article by Rebecca Hagelin; it’s a great article.
 
 

By Rebecca Hagelin
OPINION/ANALYSIS:
Culture challenge of the week: Parents, teens and sex
We live in a culture that promotes teen sex at every turn. T-shirts with slogans like “Everyone loves a slutty girl” sort of summarize what teens are up against. Marketers, liberals and the [...]

October 22, 2009
 
This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship president Mark Earley. This commentary contains material that may not be suitable for children.
Professor Dale Kuehne is a professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. At least once a semester, Kuehne can count on a certain question always being asked when he teaches [...]

Institute for American Values ~ David Lapp
Bipartisan Group of Scholars Argues Marriage as Important
as the Economy to Nation’s Overall Health
NEW YORK, October 1, 2009. Family scholars from six major universities and four leading research institutes have launched a U.S. Marriage Index, the first attempt to track, with a clear, accessible measure, the health [...]

NEW YORK, September 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the fight against child sexual abuse, the explosion of hardcore adult pornography on the Internet and elsewhere is a direct causal factor that cannot be ignored, according to the media watchdog group Morality in Media in an expansive survey released Friday.
The 40-page report entitled “How Adult Pornography [...]

Here is an interesting blog that I recently read and wanted to share:

RappTAP is helping kids realize the benefits of waiting for sex
Date published: 10/16/2009
THE Rappahannock Area Teen Abstinence Program seems to be making progress in promoting healthy choices among community young people. Through a grant, RappTAP has been delivering the message “I’m [...]

Posted: October 14, 2009
By Dr. Judith Reisman
 “Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She’s posed for Playboy magazine.”
 “Bart,” for those who do not follow teen television is “10 years old” and a global youth icon. This is Playboy’s newest marketing device to [...]

The National Coalition urges citizens to inform their communities about the issue of pornography during Pornography Awareness Week, which runs October 25 through November 1. 
Following are ways citizens can mark Pornography Awareness Week:

Write your mayor and governor urging them to publicly declare Pornography Awareness Week.
Host a breakfast or luncheon where public officials would issue [...]

Here is a young girl’s take on Abstinence-Only Education v. Plan B.  I found it very interesting!!
 
 
October 14, 2009 by Ellen Cameron  

 
There is no kind of safe sex but no sex. Condoms break. Birth control pills don’t always work. And in high school, who really has access to better forms of birth control, [...]

This is interesting–

I remember when I first heard about the idea of establishing a Center for Abstinence and Chastity, a University center that would support the needs of abstinent and chaste students. To be honest, I was deeply skeptical. It sounded like a place for students to come together and talk about how great chastity [...]

A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Ed and How They Harm Your Child
 
Speaker: Miriam Grossman, M.D.
Host: Chuck Donovan Senior Research Fellow, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, The Heritage Foundation
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: The Heritage Foundation’s Lehrman Auditorium
 
Call (202) 675-1752
All events can be viewed [...]