Culture Challenge of the Week: Abstinence Education
When adults take the time to tell children what is right and what is wrong, and teach them how to avoid sex, the majority of them actually do. But when a young person is constantly bombarded with sexual images, taught by those in authority that he can freely engage in sex if he wants to, and is presumed to be unable to control himself, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that he will most likely become sexually active.
The Washington – Monday, February 8, 2010 – by Rebecca Hagelin
