Tuesday Opinion
Read Rich Lowry, Tony Perkins, James Shott, Stephen Moore, Todd Starnes and more.
Best of Right Opinion
- Rich Lowry: Yes, Take Oprah Seriously
- Tony Perkins: Pure Politics: Abstinence Crowd Cheers Report
- James Shott: Who Is More Unstable? Trump, or His Critics?
- Stephen Moore: Who Are You Calling a Moron?
- Todd Starnes: Patriotic Teens Brave Frigid Weather to Shovel Snow From War Memorials
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Opinion in Brief
Tony Perkins: “According to the CDC’s new nationwide report, the number of high school students who said they’ve ever had sex dropped from 47 percent in 2005 to 41 percent in 2015. The good news is even better for African-American students, who showed improvements across the board, followed by Hispanics who practiced more abstinence in three of the four grades. … According to our friends at Ascend, most young people support saving sex for marriage. Most of them don’t like the idea of casual sex, want to wait, or wish they’d waited longer. When the CDC released its latest numbers on teen sex, researchers were stumped. Most people just assumed kids were having sex. And maybe that’s part of the problem. We’re so busy teaching about birth control that we don’t even bother with self-control. Somewhere along the way, it became assumed, not discouraged, that teenagers would have sex. And as a result, we have an entire area of teen education accelerates the risks instead of curbing them. Think about the other behaviors that can devastate a young person’s life. We don’t tell kids to drink less. We tell them not to drink, period. The same with smoking. We don’t hand them filters assuming that they’ll light up anyway. We challenge them not to. Most teenagers want to be challenged to stay pure too. Unfortunately, there just aren’t enough people teaching them how. Maybe parents are too embarrassed to talk about sex or think their kids aren’t listening. Well, I’ve got news for you — they are.”