Abstinence campaigns have existed since the increase in kids getting STDs or girls getting pregnant at ages under 16 has been raising lately. Before the level of venereal diseases was so high we would see campaigns about having safe sex everywhere. Wearing a condom was the main topic on these campaigns and that was everything needed to avoid unwanted pregnancies. But, condoms do not avoid getting sexually transmitted diseases. So, have all the money used on these campaigns been wasted?
Right now it is a pretty normal thing to see a girl who has not gotten her high school diploma yet, with a big belly walking around the school like everything is ok. No, it is not ok to watch how kids do whatever they want at such an age. I do not know if it's that the level of the education parents are supposed to give is decreasing so much, or if it's that we have given everybody so much freedom to deal with their own lives at such an age, that this thing is getting out of control.
Many of us do not see anything wrong with premarital sex but perhaps we should take a moment to read the book by the name of The Bible that has so many advices about it. God explains clearly in The Bible that couples should not have sex before getting married. Many people see this as a way of oppressing their free will or their management of their own lives. But, why don't we look closer? What if The Bible was right and all to have to do to avoid having daughters and sons of 15 years with their own kid already, is to just apply Christian moral values to our youth. Isn't it true that we would decrease the level of young single mothers having babies? Isn't it true that we would help decrease the level of people getting STDs everyday if they had just one sex partner?
The answer to all the questions are found there, in The Bible. Safe sex campaigns are not the solution, God is. Teaching Christian values is a major thing we need to do to put things under control.
Do abstinence campaigns have any effect on the youth?
By iwyll - Posted on February 21st, 2008
Tagged: Shared responsibility
I see what your saying. Yes, the abstinence campaign does work for some kids, but not all. I think that most of the kids in my school have sex because everyone else is. Some people are actually in love and feel that sex would be the next step. Eitherway, people are having sex for some reason or the other.
However, I don't think sex is the problem at all, and the bible is a useful tool to help us figure things out. People having sex too young is a society issue first. Marriage is losing its importance in society. Divorce is rampant. People bash love at every corner especially among young adults. "Your too young to be in love". Society needs to make committment and family more important, and maybe then chasity will prevail. I don't know just guessing.
Abstinence campaigns have existed since the increase in kids getting STDs or girls getting pregnant at ages under 16 has been raising lately.
The teen pregnancy rate had been declining steadily since 1991, but now that abstinence-only education has become so common, teen pregnancy rates have begun to creep up again.
But, condoms do not avoid getting sexually transmitted diseases.
Not true. Condoms are actually very effective at preventing the spread of STDs.
Right now it is a pretty normal thing to see a girl who has not gotten her high school diploma yet, with a big belly walking around the school like everything is ok. No, it is not ok to watch how kids do whatever they want at such an age. I do not know if it's that the level of the education parents are supposed to give is decreasing so much, or if it's that we have given everybody so much freedom to deal with their own lives at such an age, that this thing is getting out of control.
This is not true, either. Back in the 1960s, the teenage birth rate was more than double what it is today. This is not a problem that is "getting out of control." It was well on its way to being under control until abstinence-only came along.
Many of us do not see anything wrong with premarital sex but perhaps we should take a moment to read the book by the name of The Bible that has so many advices about it. God explains clearly in The Bible that couples should not have sex before getting married.
Really? Which chapter and verse? Because I've been looking through Bible quotes about sex for a good ten minutes now, and there's certainly a lot about adultery and incest and divorce, but nothing I can find that clearly condemns couples having premarital sex.
What if The Bible was right and all to have to do to avoid having daughters and sons of 15 years with their own kid already, is to just apply Christian moral values to our youth.
Feel free to apply your Christian moral values to your own children, but stay away from mine.
My own high school taught abstinence-only, and they have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the state (which has one of the highest rates in the country). I became pregnant as a teen because nobody bothered to tell me that I could get contraception for free at Planned Parenthood. In the almost ten years since I had my baby, I've been using contraception and haven't got pregnant at all.
Contraception works. Abstinence-only does not work.
According to the dictionary:
fornication: voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
Now, take a closer look
Acts 15:29
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication
Abstinence-only education actually increases the amount of teen pregnancies and so forth. x.x
I so agree! I know that it is not a fool-proof plan, but I think that no sex until marriage is better than any form of safe sex before marriage. I just wish that our society would be more willing to embrace abstinence. Sex has become such a part of our culture that it has lost all of its meaning (reproduction!) and as a symbol of the unity of a man and a woman in marriage and for the foundation of producing a family.
I see what your saying but as a teen I don't think these campaigns work well. Telling children not to do something is like encouraging them to try harder. Some children believe that abstinence is the only way and others are far from it. These campaigns may work for some teens but most likely not all.