Tag: Illegitimate

  • Sex Education

    Sex Education

    The misguided fostering of sex education in the classroom on the basis that it will lessen sex ignorance and reduce illegitimate pregnancy, venereal disease, and related problems has no basis for sound conclusions. Actual experience has proven the results to be just the opposite.

    President Alvin R. Dyer, First Presidency, April 1969 General Conference
    https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1969a/page/n57/mode/2up

    Comprehensive Sex Education for Teens Is More Effective than Abstinence

    AJN, American Journal of Nursing: March 2012 – Volume 112 – Issue 3 – p15
    https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2012/03000/comprehensive_sex_education_for_teens_is_more.5.aspx
  • Out of Wedlock

    Out of Wedlock

    Excerpt from an April 1930 General Conference talk by Sylvester Q. Cannon: 1

    BENEFITS OF HIGH MORAL STANDARDS 

    Now what are the evidences as to the benefits of the observance by the Latter-day Saints of high moral standards as compared with other people ? I would like to take the opportunity to give you certain government statistics. The Church does not keep record of births out of wedlock, but the government records for Utah and Idaho, where the majority of the Latter-day Saints live, as compared with the rest of the United States, show that the illegitimate birth rate in each of these two states is less than one-third. And that is true also of still-births out of wedlock. Is that any evidence to you as to the benefits of the observance of the declarations of God and the teachings by the leaders 

    References

    References
    1 April 1930 General Conference – https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1930a