Parents: The Bible’s Not Doing It
October 26, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Sex
Parents who believe that their strong religious beliefs and raising their children in the church will prevent teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases may be surprised to learn that teen-age pregnancies are highest among the more religious states in the United States.
Of course, who can forget failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her teen daughter, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. Here was a very in-your-face conservative who doesn’t want sex education in the schools, who believed that raising your child “right” and with God would keep her from getting pregnant – and her daughter became pregnant. Sure, she’s one teen among millions, …read more
