Although we’ve heard a lot these days about government stimulus packages, what America needs most is a MORAL stimulus package! Now that the federal government has eliminated all funding for abstinence until marriage programs while increasing funding for contraceptive education in our schools, teenagers will be bombarded with the “here’s how to do it safely” message coming from the fallacy of “they’re going to do it anyway.”
Couple this with peer pressure, TV, music, movies, advertising, internet, and everything else our kids face in this sex saturated culture; we are sure to see teen pregnancies, STDs, and emotional heartbreaks skyrocket. It happened throughout the 1980s when comprehensive sex education reigned paramount. It will happen again.
But there are a few ways this inevitable trend can be reversed this time.