by Charlie Butts
Gardasil, a vaccine used to inoculate young girls against a form of cervical cancer, is now being recommended for boys ages 11 to 12. Some sources consider that to be a bad idea and not cost-effective. Read more…
Next week a British television channel begins the second series of a show called “The Joy of Teen Sex”. The programme promises “A bold, informative look at the love lives and sex lives of teenagers that tells it like it really is, and is definitely not just for teens.” Not justfor teens? Is a show with such a misleading title useful for teens at all? Read more…
by Kevin Ryan
Two decades ago Harvard historian, Richard Hunt, coined the phrase, “no-fault history”, reportedly based on his experience teaching undergraduates his course on modern German history. In discussing the extermination policies and other unspeakable evil decisions of Hitler and his Nazi henchmen, Hunt’s undergraduates could not bring themselves to judge them as evil. “How can we judge Hitler?” they asked. “We don’t know how his parents treated him. Hitler was a victim of his own background, his conditioning. We don’t know the whole story. How can we say an individual is evil? Who are we to judge?” Who indeed? Read more…
by Becky Yeh
A pro-family leader is calling on California’s governor to veto a dangerous bill that he and other family advocates believe undermines parental authority and the safety of children.
Governor Jerry Brown has several days to decide on the fate of AB 499, a bill that would allow minors as young as 12 years of age to consent to “medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.” The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D), would allow children to agree to vaccines and treatments without the consent of parents, including the vaccine Gardasil. Read more…
An urban high school teacher in Connecticut talks about unwed motherhood, fatherlessness, and how it affects the kids in his classroom.
…Here’s my prediction: the money, the reforms, the gleaming porcelain, the hopeful rhetoric about saving our children—all of it will have a limited impact, at best, on most city schoolchildren. Urban teachers face an intractable problem, one that we cannot spend or even teach our way out of: teen pregnancy. This year, all of my favorite girls are pregnant, four in all, future unwed mothers every one. There will be no innovation in this quarter, no race to the top. Personal moral accountability is the electrified rail that no politician wants to touch… Read more…
by Marcia Segelstein
Laura Ingraham, in her new book, Of Thee I Zing, describes being awakened from such a reverie while shopping in a mall one day. Suddenly things came into sharp focus: teenage girls in jeans that looked like they’d been painted on, teenage boys checking to be sure their boxer shorts showed above their pants, an explicit Victoria’s Secret window display, a child screaming for a ZhuZhu pet, people walking around trance-like staring at various electronic devices in their hands, nobody really noticing anybody else. And she wondered how we reached this point. Read more…
by Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. and Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
Dr. Fagan is senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) at Family Research Council.
The 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that students who now worship weekly and who grew up with two married parents are most likely to have received a high school degree. Read more…
How can life get better for sexually confused young people if they cut themselves off from their families and abandon themselves to sex?
For LGBT teens who face adversity and intolerance…There’s no place in society for hatred and bullying…You have an amazing future in front of you…
And an entire community in your corner…We promise you. It gets better. Read more…
A professor of sociology wrote a week or so ago in the New York Timesthat American family life might be much improved if parents in the US were more like those in the Netherlands who — typically, it is implied — allow their teenage daughters to have their boyfriends sleep over in the family home, or sons to have their girlfriends do the same. Read more…
The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.
Today, a thousand or so youth activists from around the world gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a high level meeting on the theme of “dialogue and mutual understanding”. The two-day UN youth summitmarks the culmination of an international Year of Youth that began last August and ends on the annual UN World Youth Day, August 12th. Read more…
By Carlos Polo
The age at which teenagers begin to engage in sexual activity is a critical variable for those who would make public policy in the health field. Early onset of sexual activity is associated with higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), teen pregnancy, depression, suicide, and other adverse consequences. Read more…
by Bill May
AB 499, the bill which permits 12 year old children to give consent, without their parents’ knowledge, for vaccines or other medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, was surprisingly pulled from the Senate floor July 7 and referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. A new hearing has been scheduled for August 15. Read more…
Delivered June 3, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Faculty and Students of Providence Academy; Class of 2011; parents, friends and benefactors: this is a wonderful and memorable day. For many of you, graduating from high school was always a foregone conclusion. So maybe you feel this day is no big deal. For some of you, graduating from high school is the result of a significant effort. For all of you, this day is an important milestone, the first step away from the world of your childhood and into adulthood. Read more…
by Bill May
Children Over 12 Can Consent to SDT Vaccines
AB 499 is End Run by Planned Parenthood, et al.
Hearing Tuesday: Call Senate Judiciary Committee Members
In 2007 there was a proposal for mandatory vaccines for school children to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases. It died after an uproar then. But now the drug companies, Planned Parenthood, NARAL and others are back, trying to get the legislature to sneak a bill through that would let children 12 years old and above give consent to be vaccinated without their parents knowledge. This is one of the most outrageous bills we have seen. Read more…
Experts in New Zealand are singing the praises of cultivating self-control in young children, thanks to new research findings. Start early and you could save them from addictions, poverty and crime is the message.
I know — you think it shouldn’t take a study to discover what is, or used to be, common sense; but no-one dares to talk about virtue or character today without dressing it up in science. And New Zealand has a great little study that is useful for showing how childhood habits work out in later life. Read more…
Those who insist on “safer sex” education for adolescents seem to assume two things: first, that nearly all teens will become sexually active, and second, that it doesn’t matter (they have a right to) so long as they take precautions against disease and pregnancy. Therefore, all teens should be subjected to the same sexual propaganda. Read more…
A 12-year-old may now consent to hormone blocking therapy. But why would parents allow it?
I am not making this up.
Twelve-year-old children in the United Kingdom who feel confused about their gender now can opt to receive puberty-blocking drugs while they make up their minds whether to be male or female. Read more…
Click here and scroll down to watch the video. Don’t miss Rep. Betsy Poirer, R) N Attleboro at around 4:45. Her comment at 5:25 is brilliant: “We are not the parents of these children. We are the governmental body that is entrusted with taxpayer dollars, which are meager and few these days….”
According to the Boston Herald, a state-funded sex education website tells teenagers that an abortion is “much easier than it sounds.” The website, mariatalks.com, is glossing over the ugly truths of abortion and even counseling them on how to keep their parents in the dark about it. Read more…
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