Sixty-four girls who attend Timken Senior High School in Ohio have become pregnant. How could sixty-four girls, at one school, become pregnant at the same time? Aside from the obvious sexual act, I believe the culprit is contagious ideas.
Ideas, like viruses, are contiguous; they spread from one person to the next. What is funny about the spread of an idea is that sometimes we can become infected with it, adopt it as our own, and never really know where it came from or why we believe it. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are a very susceptible people to foreign ideas. Be they uplifting and positive ideas, or negative and destructive, we cannot help but let certain ideas creep in and become a part of us.
The idea that it is ok to be sexually active before marriage, the idea that having sex with out protection, and perhaps even the idea that it is cool to become pregnant are ideas that have spread like a virus though this country.
The only way to combat these virulent ideas is with opposing ideas. We need to spread the idea that it is good to wait to have sex and that one can have a meaningful sexual relationship with one partner for a lifetime. We need to drill these ideas into our children. We need to talk with them at home and at church. We need to teach them what the Bible has to say about sex. These are the ideas that should be virulent.
It is the responsibility of the parent to instill values in their children. If parents continue to shirk that responsibility, the world will be more than happy to perform that role for them. This high school in Ohio should be a wake up call.
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