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According to a press release in MarketWatch.com, Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom:  Read more

A recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report on unintended pregnancies and contraceptive use serves as a good reminder to teens, parents and educators that sex outside of marriage is never safe, even when contraceptives are used.  Read more

Is consistent and correct condom use common?
No.

• Forty percent of unmarried adults used a condom the last time they had intercourse.¹
• Forty-five percent of 15- to 19-year-old boys use a condom consistently.² The number shrinks as they get older: 39 percent of 19-year-old boys use condoms, compared to 70 percent of 16-year-old boys.³ It is important to note this because older teens are more likely to be infected with and transmit STDs. ⁴ (more…)

Warning: Blog deals with sexual content – not suited for children.  Read more

Calls to Wisconsin’s gambling-addiction hotline may have dropped slightly in 2011, but the indebtedness of addicted gamblers (average, annual debt per problem gambler) has surged from an average of almost $44,000 in 2010 to $157,000 in 2011 – nearly a 257-percent increase in the course of one year. You can see this in the Wisconsin gambling-helpline data graphs below.  Read more

John W. Kindt is a professor of business and legal policy at Illinois. He is a leading national gambling critic who has testified before Congress about the societal, business and economic impacts of decriminalizing gambling. Professor Kindt is a prolific author and researcher, whose works are published in numerous law journals. (See most of Professor Kindt’s gambling-economy articles in the CitizenLink Gambling Research Library.)  Read more

[WARNING: Material and links contain sexually graphic discussion and images regarding explicit sex education in the United Kingdom and U.S. - this is not appropriate for children.]

Parents, never assume schools are safe places for your children to learn about sexuality. God has given you, as parents (or the parent), this responsibility – it’s not the place of schools or government to teach your children about your family values and standards.  Read more

“Wake up, Floridians! You’re about to be ‘had,’” begins columnist Stephen Goldstein, in his Sun Sentinel article“Gov. Scott’s lust for casinos a bad bet.”  Read more

Somewhere between Chicken Little, “The sky is falling!” and Aesop’s fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper exists the realm of urgency and responsibility we should feel at this point as families and activists opposed to legalized gambling.  Read more

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