The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute for Health (NIH) have declared that we are experiencing a hidden epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)–hidden because 85% of the time there are no symptoms, and despite reports that 67% of sexually active teens are using condoms. The NIH reports, “…condoms at best, reduce the risk of HIV and Gonorrhea in men, but for all other STD’s, there is insufficient evident that condoms reduce the risk at all.” The number of STD’s has grown from 2 in the 1960′s to around 25 presently, and strains are mutating and becoming resistant to antibiotics. There are 20 million STD’s contracted annually, half of those to people under the age of 25.

For teenaged girls, 46% get HPV the first time they have sex. The vaccination for HPV does not cover all strains of the disease and lends to a sense of false security. Genital Herpes can be transmitted to unborn children and can cause damage to the brain, leading to death or severe mental retardation and pain.

Oral sex is not safe sex. Any STD you can get from vaginal sex you can get from oral sex. Research is showing a cause/effect relationship between teen sex and suicide, and suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens. 

With these statistics, Abstinence Only makes a lot of sense, and teens are responding when they are taught this information, instead of the false information of ‘safe sex’.

Another very related issue is your comment that Uncle Sam becomes the provider instead of the husband/father. There are too many monetary incentives to single women to have children, which is resulting in 40% of our population being born under these circumstances. As you have pointed out, this does not lend to these children having the stability and opportunities necessary for them to be able to develop their potential, their natural interests and strengths. I was told of a 13-year-old girl who was living in an inner city, pregnant, and declaring that she was going to have as many children as she can until she is 20 years old. Then she’ll be set for life, living off the largesse of public funds coming in, purportedly for the support of her children, never needing to go to school, to work, to improve herself and develop her innate talents. This is not freedom, it is tragedy. 

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute for Health (NIH) have declared that we are experiencing a hidden epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)–hidden because 85% of the time there are no symptoms, and despite reports that 67% of sexually active teens are using condoms. The NIH reports, “…condoms at best, reduce the risk of HIV and Gonorrhea in men, but for all other STD’s, there is insufficient evident that condoms reduce the risk at all.” The number of STD’s has grown from 2 in the 1960′s to around 25 presently, and strains are mutating and becoming resistant to antibiotics. There are 20 million STD’s contracted annually, half of those to people under the age of 25.

For teenaged girls, 46% get HPV the first time they have sex. The vaccination for HPV does not cover all strains of the disease and lends to a sense of false security. Genital Herpes can be transmitted to unborn children and can cause damage to the brain, leading to death or severe mental retardation and pain.

Oral sex is not safe sex. Any STD you can get from vaginal sex you can get from oral sex. Research is showing a cause/effect relationship between teen sex and suicide, and suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens. 

With these statistics, Abstinence Only makes a lot of sense, and teens are responding when they are taught this information, instead of the false information of ‘safe sex’.

Another very related issue is your comment that Uncle Sam becomes the provider instead of the husband/father. There are too many monetary incentives to single women to have children, which is resulting in 40% of our population being born under these circumstances. As you have pointed out, this does not lend to these children having the stability and opportunities necessary for them to be able to develop their potential, their natural interests and strengths. I was told of a 13-year-old girl who was living in an inner city, pregnant, and declaring that she was going to have as many children as she can until she is 20 years old. Then she’ll be set for life, living off the largesse of public funds coming in, purportedly for the support of her children, never needing to go to school, to work, to improve herself and develop her innate talents. This is not freedom, it is tragedy.