The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Warning: dangerous drink that contains the equivalent of 6 cans of beer and about 1 cup of coffee has some serious effects. Doctors agree the mixture of alcohol (a depressant) and caffeine (a stimulant) has very negative effects. This drink, Four Loko, is known as “blackout in a can” and “cocaine in a can.” It [...]

Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield of the Heritage Foundation shed light on the misrepresentation and biases of Planned Parenthood’s press release about the new CDC report that found southern states have higher teen birth rates.  Planned Parenthood concluded that the reason northern states have fewer teen birthrates is because of condom education.  However, as the [...]

According to studies on cohabitation, nine out of ten cohabitating relationships fail and 61% of marriages that began with cohabitation end in divorce.
Mike McManus of Marriage Savers suggests that if he were running for governor in his state of Maryland, he could save taxpayers $640 million per year in expenses due to out-of-wedlock births. Another [...]

This article is a warning to parents about the options of Halloween costumes out there.  Popular costume trends can make little girls into sex objects (and we are seeing this younger and younger even from family-friendly stores).  Rebecca Hagelin asks the question – for whom are these young girls dressing up for?  14 year old [...]

Washington Times reporter Cheryl Wetzstein explores the myth that it is the lack of adequate sex education in school that has created our teen pregnancy problem.
Her emphasis in this article, however, is off. This story is all about contraception. She goes on about the formal instruction in schools on how to use condoms and other [...]

Leslee Unruh, President and Founder of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, received a phone call on Friday from a reporter at World Net Daily. He told her of the story he was working on about sex-researcher Alfred Kinsey and one of his victims who has come forward to report on the abuse she experienced.
If you decide [...]

If you watched the national news recently, I’m sure you heard about Tyler Clementi,  a college student at Rutgers University who committed suicide after his roommate recorded his homosexual behavior with a webcam and then broadcast it online.  Cyberbullying is cruel and immoral behavior no matter the motive.  Columnist Marybeth Hicks from Townhall.com points out [...]