In September 2008, U.S. News and World Report published startling new statistics depicting the increasingly dangerous sexual world of teenagers. By age 19, 75% of our adolescents have had intercourse.  This past year, there were 19 million new cases of  STDs in the United States.  Half of them (9.5 million) involved teenagers.  The most common of these diseases among teenage young women is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).  Repetitious bouts with this disease can seriously cripple a young woman’s ability to have children later in life. 

 We are now seeing 750,000 teenage pregnancies a year in the United States.  With the males involved in these pregnancies over 1.5 million teenagers are affected each year.  500,000 of these teenage pregnancies will be ended with abortions.

As you can see, public school sex education is not protecting our young people from the unnecessary complications of poor sexual judgments.  If we are going to reverse this tragedy parents must get involved in the sex education of their children.  It’s easy for parents to assume nothing like this will ever happen to their children.  However, this kind of denial is too dangerous for your children.  This is why I feel so intensely about my program… Parents First: Enabling Parents to Be the Primary Sex Educators of Their Children.  Our goal is to involve parents through the Christian education programs of local churches designed to teach them how to be the primary sex educators of their children.

I think most parents know they should assume this role.  However, since says their parents never talked to them about sex it is awkward for them to approach their children with the subject.  I am committed to putting this program in use  in 1,000 churches by the end on 2009.  If you are a parent or grandparent you need to get invovled in this program.  The future of your children and grandchildren is at risk. To learn how you can help in this mission go to: www.teachparentsfirst.com.