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Minnesota Family Council
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Group attributes troubling developments to
cultural messages encouraging Minneapolis – Tom Prichard, President of
the Minnesota Family Council (MFC), today, called the
rise in Minnesota teen pregnancies and out of wedlock
birth rates a result of promotion of sexual license in
the broader culture and is being carried over into
public sex education programs promoting contraceptive
use and sexual
experimentation. “I believe the rise in teen pregnancy and
out of wedlock birth rates is attributable to the
‘anything goes approach’ to sex we see the teen
culture.
And now it’s being pushed in schools through
unhealthy comprehensive sex education programs,” said
Prichard. The CDC reported today that in Minnesota,
the percent of teen births increased from 6.8% in 2005
to 7.0% in 2006. In Minnesota the out of wedlock
birth rate increased from 29.8% in 2005 to 31.7% in
2006.
Nationally, the teen pregnancy rate increased
from 10.2% to 10.4% and out of wedlock birth rates
increased from 36.9% to 38.5% during the same time
periods. “The rise in out of wedlock birth rates is
a very troubling development. It’s at all time
highs and puts at risk the well-being of all concerned,
especially children. Kids raised
without the benefit of two parents are 5 to 6 times more
likely to be raised in poverty, get in trouble with the
law, have problems in school and personal problems,”
added Prichard. “Unfortunately, the broader cultural and
media messages which undermine sexual fidelity and
marriage are being aggressively pushed in our public
schools through unhealthy comprehensive sex education
programs which promote contraceptives and sexual
experimentation while spending zero time on the benefits
of marriage,” said
Prichard. The sexual revolution of the sixties and
its progeny today, as seen in these CDC figures, has
been a disaster. It’s left
in its wake a trail of broken hearts, disease, sickness,
and even death.
Our kids and society deserve better,” concluded
Prichard. |
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