The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

For all new dads out there, you have a big job ahead of you! Here is a great resource from Focus on the Family that will help in this often overwhelming yet beautiful time in your lives! Take it from John Fuller, author of First Time Dad: The Stuff You Really Need to Know, who [...]

Recent research indicates that generosity is a strong predictor in having a happy and fulfilling marriage. The ability to be positive and do nice things for a spouse seems to be a large factor in happiness for both spouses. According to the following article, researchers studied the cycle of generosity in relationships and are now [...]

Columnist Susan Brown takes a trip through the American family’s past, present and future in the following article. From one generation to another, we’ve grown up with different ideas and influences that have shaped how we view the world. The number of children born to unwed mothers has skyrocketed in recent years, and America has [...]

The Center for Disease Control, CDC, has reported that 2010 has seen historic lows in teen birth rates in the United States. Among the contributing factors for this trend, we need to give credit to:
* Abstinence education in schools and churches
* Parents raising the bar
* Purity Balls
* God, Mom & Me Teas
* Father/Son Time Outs
Of [...]

Do you want your teen getting advice from Planned Parenthood, an organization known for pushing a sexually explicit, anything-goes agenda and responsible for aborting 300,000 babies every year? Well, Planned Parenthood has just launched a webpage for teens to text their “sexual health” questions and expect a reply within 24 hours. We continue to encourage [...]

The following two links show young adults speaking out against the lies of the culture. The first is a YouTube clip of a young lady who shares her heart about waiting for the one God has for her. With lessons learned, she beautifully shares her lyrics to a crowd who understands where she’s coming from. [...]

In the following article, columnist Michael Brown reflects on radical sex education in American schools. Radical sex-ed is nothing new. Here is a quote from a mom’s perspective as she described a conversation with her child’s teacher back in 1992: “When I asked her about modesty, she told me that is something she tries to [...]

The following Focus on the Family radio program is about the differences between men and women. This faith-based program will make you laugh and encourage you in your marriage as they share comedian and Pastor Mark Gungor’s take on those differences between the sexes. He reminds listeners that anything worth having is difficult.
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The following article by CitizenLink concludes that the best way to improve education and alleviate poverty is to strengthen marriages. Study after study have shown that intact biological parents in the home make a huge difference on many aspects of children’s lives including education, poverty rates, mental wellbeing, and abstinence until marriage, partly because intact [...]

The following article from Boundless website reflects on the meaning of chastity. A great line from the article puts it into perspective, “Sometimes it is easy to forget that chastity is not just an arbitrary ‘no’; it is a ‘no’ for the sake of a ‘yes.’” A yes to something much more valuable. This faith-based [...]