TRUE LOVE WAITS

[Oceanbreeze]

"True Love Waits® is one of several approaches to challenging teenagers and college students to make a commitment to sexual abstinence until marriage. "

"True Love Waits has launched "Takes the Town," an initiative that encourages cities to take a unified, community-wide approach to promoting abstinence by involving schools, government, businesses, churches, health organizations and others. The vision for "Takes the Town" is to help communities find solutions to reclaiming sexual purity among their youth."


http://www.lifeway.com/tlw/

[McLovin]

True love may wait, but true lust will get you every time. I was 17 once. I know how it goes. :lmao

I will definitely teach my children abstinence - don't get me wrong, but I'll be teaching them other things as well. Because if you don't then they will learn it from the other kids in the bathroom. :yep

[patriotsblade]

True love may wait, but true lust will get you every time. I was 17 once. I know how it goes. :lmao

I will definitely teach my children abstinence - don't get me wrong, but I'll be teaching them other things as well. Because if you don't then they will learn it from the other kids in the bathroom. :yep

:yep One of those bathroom lessons could be bleach drinking 101.

http://forums.thepoliticalasylum.com/showthread.php?t=18685

Young people will do dumb things. They need all of the information available about this stuff, not just the parts you may really want them to follow.

[toxic]

Abstinence apparently works for a "few" people, but I'm with Lola Starr, there was nothing that was going to stop me.

I was even sort of sincere when I would promise to pull it out at the last moment. It just felt too good and was too intoxicating to actually make good on that promise.

[Oceanbreeze]

Great visual.

2 people are getting married.
Behind the prospective individual is a person standing behind him/her that he/she slept with. How long would your line be at your wedding?

[cassandra]

Great article and definitely a great approach.

I know I am in the minority but people can wait. :D Making good choices often isn't easy, determination of spirit is required. I will work my hardest to instill determined spirits in each of my children.

[Oceanbreeze]

Great article and definitely a great approach.

I know I am in the minority but people can wait. :D Making good choices often isn't easy, determination of spirit is required. I will work my hardest to instill determined spirits in each of my children.

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[Oceanbreeze]

Abstinence apparently works for a "few" people, but I'm with Lola Starr, there was nothing that was going to stop me.

I was even sort of sincere when I would promise to pull it out at the last moment. It just felt too good and was too intoxicating to actually make good on that promise.

Abstinence does work. I am married woman and living proof. My husband has had numerous military deployments, anywhere from 5 months to 12 months. We have never been unfaithful. :woot

[Sweet Tart]

I wasn't taught abstinence, birth control, any of that. I won't make the same mistake with my own kids. They will know there are major consequences to sex - physically, mentally and emotionally, and I hope they will listen.

Odds are, they won't, but they'll at least be well-armed.

[sparks]

We have never been unfaithful.

Famous last words right before someone finds out about an affair. It's been my experience to never say never...it's almost tempting the fates.

[Oceanbreeze]

I wasn't taught abstinence, birth control, any of that. I won't make the same mistake with my own kids. They will know there are major consequences to sex - physically, mentally and emotionally, and I hope they will listen.

Odds are, they won't, but they'll at least be well-armed.

:woot :woot :woot
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Next week at class a nurse comes in and talks about STDs. :lmao Our daughter will probably be scarred for life. :lmao When she was 4, in the am, TLC was only kids educational shows. I was fixing lunch, didn't notice it changed to the "birthing show" :snicker. So, at age 4, she says "I'm never giving birth, I'm gonna adopt". :lmao

[McLovin]

Seriously, people, not teaching your child the dangers of sex is like teaching them to drive a car without a break pedal.

You can tell your child not to start the engine all you want, but the minute you're not looking that engine will roar & without a break pedal your child may get more than he or she bargained.

Abstinence is a great & wonderful thing to teach, but putting all your eggs in the "wait for marriage" basket is a little presumptuous.

[Oceanbreeze]

I wasn't taught abstinence, birth control, any of that. I won't make the same mistake with my own kids. They will know there are major consequences to sex - physically, mentally and emotionally, and I hope they will listen.

Odds are, they won't, but they'll at least be well-armed.

Lola; I am going to plead the 5th, except my mom did put me on bc's when I was 17.

[McLovin]

My mother sent my sister & I off to an HIV seminar at a local library when I was in high school. The girl who was speaking was a former student of a local high school & contracted HIV through a sexual encounter with a boyfriend. The story was heart breaking. And this was way before I had even had sex. (I was almost 18 when I had sex for the first time)

My point is - I don't buy the whole abstinence thing. You can think it'll never happen to you, but this girl was young, bright, beautiful & just another "normal" teenager.

[cassandra]

I wasn't taught abstinence, birth control, any of that. I won't make the same mistake with my own kids. They will know there are major consequences to sex - physically, mentally and emotionally, and I hope they will listen.

Odds are, they won't, but they'll at least be well-armed.

Great post Tart. I am so glad you will be giving them all the needed details to make their own informed decisions.

Seriously, people, not teaching your child the dangers of sex is like teaching them to drive a car without a break pedal.

You can tell your child not to start the engine all you want, but the minute you're not looking that engine will roar & without a break pedal your child may get more than he or she bargained.

Abstinence is a great & wonderful thing to teach, but putting all your eggs in the "wait for marriage" basket is a little presumptuous.

My parents only told me the dangers, much like Tart's idea. I was conceived by a 16 year old so the reality of teenage pregnancy is my life. :) It was my personal convictions that kept me from having sex with just anyone.

[BartonX]

Lola; I am going to plead the 5th, except my mom did put me on bc's when I was 17.

Well hell, as hot ended as you are can you blame her? :LL