strategy
Promoting chaste living for youth
Synonyms:
Advocating chaste attitudes in the youngAdvocating chastity for unmarried adolescents Promoting sexual abstinence for young people
Implementation:
In July 1994, some 211,000 signed cards - with a commitment to be sexually pure until the day one enters marriage - were staked to the ground in Washington D.C.'s Mall.
Claim:
Most of the sex material made available to the young these days describes sexual intercourse in terms of "boy" and "girl" activity, rather than "husband" and "wife". It is difficult to find any mention of marriage as a positive and healthy relationship. The "advice" on STD's typically consists of normalizing venereal infections ("sexual diseases are not always worse than many other kinds of diseases that are passed around, such as the 'flu or measles"), encouraging open discussion, using condoms, washing the genital area after intercourse and trying to "keep the number of partners down to as few as possible". The avoidance of promiscuous relationships is not presented as an option.
Constrains:
Defending reproductive rights Constrained by:
Promoting adolescent reproductive health awareness Facilitates:
Forging family life-stylePromoting natural family planningEducating about safe sex practicesReducing unwanted adolescent pregnancies Facilitated by:
Publishing materials about adolescent sexualityPreserving covenantal understanding of sexuality Problems:
Health risks of teenage sexIncreasing adolescent sexual activity
Lost covenantal understanding of sexuality
Pre-marital sexual intercourse
Organizations:
Family and Youth Concern References:
Riches, Valerie: Sex and Social Engineering Subjects:
Communication → PromotionInnovative change → Change
Psychology → Psychology
Societal Problems → Addiction, drug abuse
Society → Adolescents
Society → Marriage
Society → Sex-related questions
Society → Youth
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
