The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy recommends nine tips to help faith leaders and their communities address teen pregnancy:
One: Address the need teens have for spiritual fulfillment and help them find answers to the many challenging problems they face.
Two: Encourage parents to talk with their children about sex and morality within the context of your faith tradition.
Three: Enlist adults in your faith community to help young people.
Four: Make sure the children and teenagers in your faith community understand what your faith tradition says about sex, love, and marriage in general and teen pregnancy, in particular. Use clear and unambiguous language.
Five: Learn about contemporary youth culture - what your young people are reading, listening to, watching and doing.
Six: Organize supervised group activities for teenagers in your faith community.
Seven: Reach out to teenagers who are not involved in any faith community.
Eight: Celebrate achievement and excellence.
Nine: Reach out to other faith communities, neighborhood organizations, and institutions that work with young people.
The
National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy:
With One Voice 2007, America's Adults and Teens Sound
Off About Teen Pregnancy, An Annual National Survey
by Bill Albert, February 2007
- Strong majorities of teens (76%) and adults (64%)
agree that religious leaders and groups should be
doing more to help prevent teen pregnancy.
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