The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Breaking news headlines this week: couples who wait to have sex until marriage have better, happier and more stable relationships. 
Really?  Is this news to people!?  Hello.  We have been promoting purity for years and we have seen that abstinence until marriage is the best decision for the healthiest relationships.  Why?  Because communication and respect are important [...]

Theodore Roosevelt - from a letter to his son Kermit in 1904
 
“It was a great comfort to feel, all during the last days when affairs looked doubtful, that no matter how things came out the really important thing was the lovely life I have with mother and with you children and that compared to this [...]

There are two things we can agree on with this author. One is that TV is a poor replacement for good parenting. The second is that parents need to communicate with their children. Television shows that target teen audiences show sex to be a recreational activity with little to no consequences. Even the popular show [...]

Having children does not come with an instruction manual. It’s easy to think that “the pros” would be the best ones to talk to children about sex, but that is false. A 2009 survey by the Department of Health and Human Services found that teens preferred to talk to a family member about sex. In [...]

By Dr. Joseph White of The Institute for Research & Evaluation
I believe we are witnessing the complete transformation of government towards the ideology of socialism, cloaked in the notion of “protecting” us and “providing” us with the “greater good.”  Much of this transition has been done in the name of science.  For example, we have [...]

The following article makes one think: is promoting positive self-esteem really beneficial for children? Of course we don’t advocate for making children feel bad about themselves, but why do we insist on praising them for things that are done poorly? We have gone so far as to give trophies to losing teams and eliminate valedictorians [...]