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Admitting Sex is Procreative ? a Surprising Proposal to Curb Nonmarital Births

By ADF Alliance Alert

Helen M. Alvare writes at the Culture of Life Institute "Most of the state and private programs responding to nonmarital births over the last 40 years have poured their energies into ?taking the baby out? of the sexual encounter via birth control. Abstinence programs, which are less common, try to teach young people how to avoid nonmarital sexual involvement. ?Big-picture? efforts have aimed to boost young people?s educational and job attainments, in order to steer them toward a different future. While occasionally, policy experts have referenced the need to help young people think more healthfully about the meaning of their lives, including about the importance of their heterosexual relationships, no extensive efforts have ever been directed to addressing the intertwined issues I have surfaced above. For brevity?s sake, I would say these issues might be identified as: the moral weight of heterosexual relations; the public nature of heterosexual relations; the intrinsically parental orientation of heterosexual relations, and the crisis of fatherhood."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).