Called By Christ To Be ONE: STUDY SHOWS CONTINUED DECLINE IN TEEN SEXUAL ACTIVITY

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Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

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Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!

Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!

Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

Sunday, October 7, 2018

STUDY SHOWS CONTINUED DECLINE IN TEEN SEXUAL ACTIVITY

By Michael New | October 5, 2018 | 3:47 PM EDT

Contraceptive medication (Screenshot)

Last week, the Guttmacher Institute released a study on recent trends in sexual activity among U.S. high school students.

The report analyzes new data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

It found that between 2013 and 2017, the percentage of high school students who ever had sexual intercourse fell from 47 percent to 40 percent – an all-time low in the 26-year history of the YRBS.

The report finds that there were declines in sexual activity among both genders, all grade levels, and all ethnic and racial groups.

Overall, the decline in teen sexual activity that started in the early 1990s continues well into this decade.

Good news.

The study also found that rates of contraceptive use among high school students remained largely unchanged during this time period;

however, there was some evidence that students were shifting away from condoms and toward long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).

That said, since teen sexual activity was declining with no corresponding increase in contraceptive use, much of the recent decline in teen pregnancy rates can be explained by reductions in teen sexual activity.

However, the authors fail to use this new data to analyze recent teen pregnancy declines.

The 63 percent decline in the teen pregnancy rate since 1990 is an unheralded public policy success story which has confounded an ideologically diverse group of researchers.

New data that could help explain this phenomenon is always welcome.

All in all, this is unsurprising. Guttmacher is quick to highlight studies that purportedly find increases in contraceptive use among teenagers, but they almost never link declines in teen pregnancy rates to reductions in teen sexual activity.

In fact, a September 2017 Guttmacher study that analyzed long-term teen pregnancy rate trends never once even mentioned that both the YRBS and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) found durable and consistent reductions in teen sexual activity since the early 1990s.

The Guttmacher Institute was Planned Parenthood’s research arm and advocates greater contraception access as a strategy to reduce teen pregnancy rates.

It is disappointing that Guttmacher analysts refuse to acknowledge that reductions in teen sexual activity are playing an important role in America’s teen pregnancy rate decline.

Michael J. New is a visiting assistant professor at The Catholic University of America and an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Follow him on Twitter @Michael_J_New

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