by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Reasons for Abstinence
The "2002 Kids Count Book," published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, contains data on the decreasing teen birth rates across the USA. http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/auxiliary_2002/table1_5.htm. The U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate declined by 36% from 1990-2002....
by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Reasons for Abstinence
Three million teenagers — about 1 of 3 sexually experienced teenagers — acquire an STD every year. In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, a woman has a 1% risk of acquiring HIV, a 30% risk of getting genital Herpes, and a 50%...
by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Reasons for Abstinence
The proportion of 15- 19-year-old girls who are sexually active rose from 47% in 1982 to 55% in 1990, and is decreasing again. The percentage of high school students who have remained virgins has risen from 45.6% in 1990 to 54.1% in 2001. Fifty-six percent of teenage...
by APFLI | Feb 14, 2004 | Reasons for Abstinence
Believing that true love waits, hundreds of thousands of young people around the country have committed themselves to sexual purity until marriage. Set Your Standards High – The Sky’s the Limit! While abstinence is not a new...
by APFLI | Oct 8, 2003 | Reasons for Abstinence
Sex Advocates Join With Teachers Union To Take Control From Parents by urging Congress to take control of childrens sex education from parents. The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the National Education Association (NEA)...
by APFLI | Aug 27, 2003 | Reasons for Abstinence
What is YOUR sex-image? –> Sex for sale, where the prostitute sells his or her body for another's sexual pleasure? –> Sex for kicks, where the playboy or playgirl uses his or her body for sexual pleasure? –>...
by APFLI | Aug 27, 2003 | Reasons for Abstinence
Advocates For Youth (AFY) Led a Youth Institute At a Bisexuality Conference. AFY received $1.4 million in federal funding in 2002. AFY lobbies against federal funding for abstinence education. AFY led a “Bi Youth Pre-conference Inst” at the North...
by APFLI | Apr 2, 2003 | Reasons for Abstinence
School programs that emphasize abstinence until marriage are vastly under-funded compared to so-called “comprehensive” sex education. [www.frc.org/get/is03b1.cfm; Family Research Council, 4/2/03; Abstinence Clearinghouse,...
by APFLI | Jan 1, 2003 | Reasons for Abstinence
Two girls were bragging that between them, they had given Herpes to hundres of guys. They said, "They wanted it; they got it". Another girl, when she found out she was pregnant, smiled and said, "Well, I guess I got him right where I want him, don't...
by APFLI | Dec 3, 2002 | Reasons for Abstinence
The percentage of high school students who said they had had sexual intercourse fell from 54% to 46% between 1991 and 2001. Six high school and college students from around the country were interviewed for “Choosing Virginity,” the cover story, in which...
by APFLI | Jun 28, 2002 | Reasons for Abstinence
Today’s youths are more responsible and more educated than those of past generations but need to focus on leading healthy lifestyles, said HHS Secretary Thompson at the first ever National Youth Summit. Mr. Thompson promoted sexual abstinence as the only way to...
by APFLI | May 1, 2002 | Reasons for Abstinence
15 pageant titleholders from 13 states and the D.C. spoke to hundreds of students from Chicago recently about sexual abstinence and healthy decision-making at a Power of Abstinence Celebration, organized by Project Reality. [Abstinence Network, Spring...
by APFLI | Feb 11, 2002 | Reasons for Abstinence
in the name of “good health.” Outside the Olympic village, “Safe-Games 2002” distributed more than a quarter million condoms, sex-safe instructions, hand-warmers/lip balm; supported by American Red Cross, Utah AIDS Fdn, & Planned...
by APFLI | Feb 3, 2002 | Reasons for Abstinence
Can we protect our daughters from sex, drugs and alcohol? Best Friends founder Elayne Bennett (wife of former Education Sec Wm. Bennett) says “yes.” While working with teens 15 years ago in Washington, D.C., she saw girls who were anxious, depressed and...
by APFLI | Dec 7, 2001 | Reasons for Abstinence
Homosexuals are gathering in record numbers at a new event called the “Circuit Party,” weekend-long sex orgies where homosexuals engage in sex with multiple partners & spread STDs/ HIV. Station KPIX in northern CA covered one of these events where...
by APFLI | Nov 30, 1999 | Reasons for Abstinence
The Connection As we begin our walk into the third millenium, we are constantly met with the present problems of teen/young adult non-marital pregnancy, STDs, emotional brokenness, suicide, failure to bond, failure to thrive, pornography, sex abuse, divorce; the list...
