The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Enough Is Enough (EIE), a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping children safe online, announced the launch of a new Jumbotron ad campaign in Times Square in New York City.  The video ad campaign, sponsored by MySpace and made possible through in-kind support from CBS and Neutron Media, highlights the many challenges parents [...]

Wednesday, March 31st, nationally know dynamic speaker David Mahan will be returning to Bainbridge. Sponsored by Decatur County Family Connection, Mahan will be delivering powerful messages about abstinence and your worth and value as a person.

Mahan, CEO Frontline Youth Communications, has made several trips to the Bainbridge area speaking at the middle schools, Bainbridge High [...]

By MICHELLE ANDREWS
 

Tucked inside the huge health reform bill signed into law last week were many surprising and little-noticed provisions that will affect consumers in ways large and small. It emerged that chain restaurants, for example, would have to disclose the calorie counts of items on their menus. Who knew? Here are some other examples:
TIME [...]

Susan Anthony shuts her eyes or looks down when there’s a sex scene on a movie screen.

Intimate home dinner dates are a no-no. She no longer goes salsa dancing. 

“It can awaken and arouse something that I really don’t want it to,” said Anthony, 29, owner of a spa in River North. She’s talking about the [...]

The Witherspoon Institute Releases Statement of Findings and Recommendations
Cincinnati–Last year, The Witherspoon Institute at Princeton University held a meeting to discuss the social cost of pornography. Citizens for Community Values (CCV) president, Phil Burress, attended that meeting by invitation. Now, after months of research, the experts have released a Statement of Findings and Recommendations.
A press [...]

Letter to the Editor
A handful of activists, with marching orders from radical, national groups like SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), Advocates for Youth and the ACLU, are working to convince legislators, parents, teachers, school administrators and the good citizens of South Carolina that abstinence education shouldn’t be allowed in schools [...]

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
By: Michael J. McMonagle
Bonnie Erbe is a veteran advocate of an expectant mother’s “right to choose” to have her child killed before birth by abortion.
Her Feb. 2 column against abstinence-only education programs constitutes an ironic and a highly flawed attempt to provide a “pro-life” argument for adults to promote sexually promiscuous behavior [...]

Spring has sprung in Washington, DC, and while many buses line the streets packed with students touring the National Monuments, another group of students came to Washington this week for a different purpose: To tell policymakers about the impact that abstinence education has had in their lives.
This year’s annual Abstinence Day on the Hill was [...]

by Robert Rector 
 
Alarmed by a recent well-publicized study showing that abstinence education succeeded while “safe sex” and “comprehensive” sex-ed programs failed, the Left has abandoned its “abstinence doesn’t work” claim and drawn up a new line of defense.
Consider what the New York Times had to say. According to its editorialists, the newly evaluated abstinence program [...]

Ten big reasons why parents should stay involved in their children’s lives! 

 
Emotional health.  Compared with peers whose parents are often absent throughout the day, teenagers whose parents are present when they go to bed, wake up, and come home from school are less likely to experience emotional distress.
 
Self esteem.  Youths whose parents exhibit love, responsiveness, and [...]