Is usually the bad argument used to speak against teaching "Abstinence" to your children.
Another flawed thinking is "Well, you have to allow your children to make mistakes". As ridiculous as it might seem, people still say this.
Imagine allowing your children to make mistakes they could have avoided via your fatherly/motherly instruction. Mistakes that for them, might end up being a lot more traumatizing and hurtful than it was for you. Inevitably, we're all going to make mistakes but people always look back on their mistakes and prefer that they would have had something diverting them from them.
Without question, the problems in our society concerning abortion, broken families, divorce, child abuse, single parent households, child abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, etc.., could be avoided by teaching children to think critically about consequences, how to respect themselves and being accountable for themselves.
And since the bottom line and foundation is what is taught in the Bible; "Your bodies are not yourselves, but the temple of the living God". It teaches that when we sin against our bodies, we sin against God. "Your bodies were bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:12).
It takes a lot more self control, strength, courage and knowledge of self, and God to go against the crowd than it does to follow the crowd.
But today, even in some states what we're seeing is "condom and contraception" vending machines in the high schools, which is the total opposite of teaching discipline, and encouraging empowerment. Instead the message that it sends is that "We know you're not strong enough or disciplined enough". Ironically, the public school system expects kids to be disciplined and take their studies seriously, but not their own minds and bodies.
But as "political" as people have made this argument, it's more of a moral argument, and has absolute ties to your children's relationship with God - which they themselves will need to cultivate.
Our children's moral decisions, mistakes and outcomes will of coarse, be as personal and individual to them as their own personalities but laying down a Biblical foundation for them that they see you live out in all major decisions at home, will determine what will shape their identities, and what will be their source of strength as they need it throughout their lives.
And God is the ONLY source of strength in a world where people are grasping at straws in the dark. The statistics on the crumbling family within our culture demonstrates this, and it's only getting worst
Not to teach abstinence is not only ignorant, it's disobedience to God, and taking the lives of your children which are the "heritage" God has given you, and disregarding them. It's also not giving your children a chance to cultivate discipline of the most precious gift God has given them on earth - their own bodies.
Parents who fear God raise children who fear God.
