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Abstinence Advocates,
 
Check out this disturbing article - how very disappointing!  The majority of parents and youth in this country favor the abstinence until marriage message yet those opposed to it will go to any lengths to silence them.  Please speak out - let your voice be heard!
Click here to read: Obama Administration Blocks Release of [...]

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 [...]

 
Recently we received a report from The Abstinence Kenya Forum, “Upholding the Youth’s Dignity” held on January 9, 2010.  Here is a synopsis of this report:
 
The participants of the forum were invited by Abstinence Kenya by virtue of being in the category of ‘youth’.  They were drawn from different parts of Nairobi, Kenya.  While most [...]

“I am only one, but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.”
Edward Everett Hale

“Character is power.”
Booker T. Washington

AMES, Iowa — The Ames Library Board is considering whether to limit access to a magazine that some parents said exposes their teenage children to sex at an early age.
 
Sex, Etcetera is a magazine created for teenagers that’s all about sex education. It’s currently available in the teen section of the Ames Public Library, [...]

If you have not seen a copy of the November-December 2009 issue of Celebrate Life published by the American Life League, it would be worth your time to read the story written by Lisa Bastian entitled “One less ‘YES’ for Gardasil”.
Ms. Bastian reports on many complications, even deaths, caused by this widely distributed vaccine.  Gardasil is anything but [...]

Sacramento – A dance routine performed during an event to welcome new students to Rio Americano High School is coming under fire for being too racy and sexually explicit.
 
Rio Americano parent P.J. Bascom said the routine crossed the line.
 
“It was not something I would want my son looking at.  I didn’t find it to be [...]

November 12, 2009
Positive parent-teen relationships, high parental awareness and monitoring of whom their children are with, and family dinner routines are all linked to delayed sex among teens, according to a new Child Trends research brief.  The brief, Parents Matter: The Role of Parents in Teens’ Decisions about Sex, explores how parenting practices that occur [...]

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 [...]