Parents Funding Abstinence-Only Sex Education

One of the big news flashes on the scene last year was the fact that for the first time in about 10 years; the federal government would not be funding abstinence-only in their sex education programs.What a big change a decade can make. But what is going to happen now? Who will educate teens about abstinence without federal funds? No money for the only sex program, abstinence, that prevents shattered emotions, broken hearts, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, depression, drug abuse, promiscuity, suicide and sexually transmitted diseases. The devastating effects of sex before marriage.

Does anyone care about their well-being? They are helpless children that need guidance to keep them from destroying their own lives. Children cannot see beforehand that the decisions that they make with their bodies sexually are permanent and cannot be erased. And because they are children, they do not see the end results of their own actions that they will regret for the rest of their lives. They are not adults and that is why they need parental guidance.

A child's parents are their protection from pre-marital sex and the devastating effects and baggage that goes along with it. God has given parents authority over their children's behavior. According to a book in the Bible called Deuteronomy, chapter 6:1-8, God tells us to keep His commandments. And not only are we to keep them, but God instructs us to teach them to our children and make sure that our children follow them also. Verse 7 says: "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up." This verse emphases teaching God's commandments diligently. The Hebrew meaning for teach diligently means to repeat God's commandments from morning until you go to bed at night.

A good teacher knows that just telling their students about a subject is not teaching. Lessons are taught when teachers require their students to put into practice what was taught as a requirement, whether the student wants to do it or not. Teaching is not just telling children about God's commandments, but helping them and showing them how to keep them. Therefore, parents have the God- given parental authority to require their children to practice abstinence. It is the same responsibility that parents provide like food, clothing, and shelter for their children. Children depend on parents for their daily needs and for their over all well-being, whether they like it or not.

There are many strategies that parents can use to make sure that their children are practicing abstinence. In my book,The Christian Olympics, I have outlined several strategies that parents can use to keep their children virgins until marriage. During the time that our grandparents grew up, their parents did everything possible to keep them virgins. If they had to watch them all day, send them to a distant relative that lived in the wilderness, or see that they had a chaperone, they did it. What ever it took, they did it. If they had to look out the window to see who the children were that they were walking home from school with, they did it..They knew what was at stake here. They felt the call as well as the duty to save their children from the destructive abusive behavior of sexual immorality(1 Corinthians 6:18).

No government funding was needed.In fact, what they did money could not buy. They took the responsibility upon themselves because they loved their children and wanted God's very best for their future and well-being.