The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

On August 16, I heard a discussion on one of the morning programs regarding Jennifer Aniston’s new movie, “The Switch”, and the comments by Bill O’Reilly regarding the poor message this movie and the main character are sending to teens of today.  The last comment from one of the hosts was, “Really, aren’t we making ‘much ado about nothing’.  After all, it’s just a movie.”

Unfortunately, this is the attitude of most people today.    When did it become “okay” to accept the fact that teens are going to be having sex rather than expecting them to wait until marriage? When did it become “okay” to be a pregnant teen in school rather than it being a stigma? Maybe we should have been making “much ado” about these things a long time ago and we wouldn’t see the rise in sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy today.

Now, we are to accept this movie where the main character becomes pregnant through a sperm donor as a “sign of changing times”, states Aniston.  Well, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want the teenagers I know to believe that this is where our world is going! 

It’s time we go back to teaching our children that they can say “no”, remain pure until marriage and save having and raising children within the context of a marriage.  Let’s start making “much ado” about teaching abstinence and really parenting our children.