Of course they are not ready for sex. Doesn’t mean they are going to abstain. What a dumb comment.
When my kids were in high school, they definitely were having sex. When I was in high school, I wasn’t having sex, but some kids were.
When my kids were in high school all the mothers took their daughters to the doctor to get birth control to ease menstrual pain and heavy flow. That is the fiction used to make getting your daughter birth control acceptable. Birth control is vastly superior to teen pregnancies.
My son had a girl friend in high school. It didn’t cross my beady little mind that they were sexually active until I found a used condom while emptying his trash. At which point I called the girl’s mom and calmly said our kids were sexually active. She got her daughter on birth control.
All this moral clap trap about sex—people, it’s too late. It has always been too late. People are going to have sex. Period. Birth control is a dandy idea.
common sense about teens and birth control? I agree with you, it’s much better than teen pregnancy.
Even if you tell your kids not to, sometimes nature takes its course.
Once the number of sexually active girls in a group passes a threshold, then girls who DON’T have sex find themselves at a competitive disadvantage as far as attracting male attention. Then most of the girls will go along with the group dynamics.
It used to be that girls would “slut shame” other girls, for just that reason.
"Moral clap trap?!" I dare say God disagrees with you. Besides the risk of some forms of birth control acting as an abortifacients , a principle in Scripture is that with blessings come responsibility, and that we are not to act contrary to God's purposes for creating something. Here, God created sexual relations as a blessing, and with it come responsibility, most importantly that of accepting the product that God designed this activity to result in, which is that of the conception and birth of a new life.
People are going to have sex.
The fact that man will abuse what God has created (as in here, engaging in sexual relations before marriage) simply does not justify either preventing conception of terminating it. The problem as regards teens is that the government and media etc. promoting fornication (and erotica) as a norm, from co-ed school education to films and scantily-clad "stars" to penalizing marriage.
As for your premise that "birth control is vastly superior to teen pregnancies," just why is that so? Because those involved should not or do not take responsibility for the natural God-ordained consequences for their actions? Then the problem is just that attitude, which your counsel encourages.
If the couple are unwilling to get married, there is a waiting list of people waiting to adopt (but which I think the system makes harder for the typical evangelical family).
You can point to the negative stats in single parent kids, but which also is a result of disobedience to God, and part of the answer is to deal with the welfare system that fosters it.
And by using BC then conservatives have helped to provide a demographic advantage to the 1.5 child bearing liberals, who obtain such advantage mainly thru immigration.
And by relegating the word of God to "moral clap trap" then you misuse the gifts God has given you.