Rebecca Haglin wrote about a great book called "Christian Ethics in Plain Language."
One of the things she covered was sex ed, with an excerpt from the book:
“I was sitting at a table with half a dozen 16-year-old girls, listening with some amazement as they showed off their knowledge of human sexuality. They knew how long sperm lived inside the body and how many women out of 100 using a diaphragm were statistically likely to get pregnant. One girl recited the steps of the ovulation cycle from day one to day twenty-eight. There was just one problem with this performance. Every one of the girls was pregnant.”
Speaks well of sex ed, doesn't it? Oh, I know: we just didn't give them enough of it, or didn't throw enough money at it. Uh huh.
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The sex ed probably wasn't the problem. More than likely they couldn't get their hands on birth control without their parents finding out. That is part of the problem. Also their macho boyfirends probably wouldn't wear a condom, because that wasn't the manly thing to do. When teen agers think they are in love they don't use their heads.
What did kids do before the early 1960s when unwed pregnancies started to skyrocket? They had the same hormones? The boys had the same macho instincts (to hear the feminists, it was even greater back then). And who can't get a rubber from a service station bathroom, much less their friendly neighborhood Planned Parenthood or school nurse?
Back then they did the one thing that works every time it's tried: abstinence. Most of their parents taught them self control and most of them exercised it.
Nowadays, self control is obsolete. We just tell them to act like the highly evolved animals that we also tell them they are. And guess what: we get animalized behavior from animals.
What did kids do before the early 1960s when unwed pregnancies started to skyrocket?
They got married at sixteen. Nobody calls it an unwed pregnancy, even when the baby comes along five months after the wedding.
Sure, that happened, and it was certainly preferable to subjecting a child to growing up with only one parent. But the vast majority of young people still restrained themselves until marriage. Liberals are so stuck in your fantasy world of socialism and no consequences for anything that I don't think they can even grasp the concept that people used to exercise self control and take responsibility for their own actions.
There are any number of people, even today, who wait until marriage to experience sexuality. If they can do it, why is it so impossible for everyone? The truth is, it isn't impossible, just undesirable for some.
The old "everybody's doing it" is just a crutch for those who want to do what they want to do without facing the stigma of being called "wrong."
What did kids do before the early 1960s when unwed pregnancies started to skyrocket?
Or they "went away" for several months to visit an aunt in another state, or they had illegal abortions...
What did kids do before the early 1960s when unwed pregnancies started to skyrocket?
Or they "went away" for several months to visit an aunt in another state, or they had illegal abortions...
After all, if Anonymous can't exercise self discipline, nobody else possibly can. It's not that people have ever acted in a more moral, responsible fashion than they currently do; no, it's just the regressive American Taliban wanting to impose a theocracy upon the secular socialist paradise America was for over 200 years.
Oh, that reality pill is a tough one to swallow...
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