Re: touch
Thessalonian said:
Ya think like a man rez. Promuscuity has skyrocketed since birth control has been made available.
Not really. People are just more open about it now.
Now people can "get away" with having sex outside of marriage. The moral framework of our children because of this new thinking has crashed and so children have sex outside of marriage but they fail to use ABC or their ABC fails (quite freequently).
They have sex one way or another. Would you rather have teenagers have sex that results in a child that is probably going to be either aborted or raised by a single mom who's probably going to wind up in poverty as a result of her mistake? Or would you rather they use birth control and at least spare themselves a lot of heartache?
Yes, yes, you'd rather they not have sex to begin with. So would I. But that's not a realistic option.
They get pregnant and many of them choose abortions. Oh, did I forget to mention that ABC also causes single parent families? Divorce, yes. ABC causes selfishness in couples. It also promotes infidelity. And further it discourages marriage because men can be out after sex without the responsibility that goes with it. And yes ABC has caused a drastic increase in STD's. Especially ABC which has given teenagers the false impression that it is okay to have sex and their will be no consequences if they use ABC. God will not be fooled however.
Well, not quite.
This link shows several interesting things that contradict what you're saying:
- More teens are abstaining from sex now than before.
- Teen pregnancy rates are down.
- Teen birthrates in the US, where abstinence-only education is more prevalent, is considerably higher than in European nations, where abstinence-only educations is virtually unheard of.
This link shows that the STD rates are virtually identical between teens who make abstinence pledges and those who don't. The biggest difference is that pledgers are much less likely to use protection, and much less likely to get tested for STDs after they have sex. Interestingly, while the individual STD rates for pledgers and non-pledgers are statistically the same, the STD rate is almost double in areas where many kids have pledged as compared to areas where few have pledged.
The conclusions here are pretty clear: Kids are going to have sex, as they always have. We can either educate them about pregnancy and STD prevention measures and have them engage in intercourse responsibly, or we can keep them in the dark and have them do it irresponsibly. Abstinence-only programs demonstrably don't work, as evidenced by the extremely high teen pregnancy rates in areas that rely upon it.