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. 2. Letting children be children: report of an independent review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood: https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/CM%20 8078 3. RAND Study link between teenage exposure to sexual content on television
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9068/index1.html
The average person between 2 and 18 years old sees 14,000 sexual references, innuendos and jokes each year on TV. Fewer than 175 deal with real issues of pregnancy, birth control, abstinence or sexually transmitted diseases. On soap operas sex is 24 times more common between unmarried partners than spouses. (Nathalie Bartle, Venus in Blue Jeans, Boston, Houghton Miffline, 1998, p104-5). 4. Evidence that Abstinence education works: a/ Heritage foundation: http://www.challengeteamuk.org/bg_2126.pdf b/ Family Education trust commentary:
http://www.challengeteamuk.org/AbstinenceEducation.pdf
5. STDs:
a/ The inevitable consequence of a modern conventional sex life is that 70 to 80 per cent of women will suffer genital infection with HPV, the human wart virus, at some time. (Dr Thomas Stuttaford, "Close encounters of the worst kind" The Times, 6th February 06). b/ Two strains of HPV are responsible for 90 per cent of cervical cancer. (Health Protection Agency) c/ One GP, writing in the BMJ in 2000, said that in almost 15 years of general practice he had not seen a single case of an unplanned pregnancy which resulted from ignorance about or unavailability of contraception. (BMJ 2000 321 1520-1522) 6. Abortion statistics (department of Health): http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalass et/dh_127062.pdf 7. UK Statistics: www.statistics.gov.uk Contraception: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/contra20089.pdf CDC on sexual health: http://www.cdc.gov/sexualhealth/ 8. Danger of Barrier methods of birth control: http://loveundefiled.blogspot.com/2011/04/dangers-of-barrier-methods-of-birth.html 9. BMJ shows 10 studies worldwide no correlation between availability of contraception and abortion rates: A Glasier, Emergency Contraception, BMJ, 333:560561. 10. Mental health effects of abortion: www.afterabortion.org Elliot Institute 11. Engaging in sex puts girls at a higher risk of depression. (Denise Halfors, Which comes first in adolescence: sex and drugs or depression? American Journal of Preventative medicine 29 (2005): 3. Meg Meeker: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, Ballantine Books, New York, 2006 12. Studies that show that contraception leads to abortion:
http://loveundefiled.blogspot.com/2010/11/studies-that-show-that-contraception.html