Resources
Here is a list of websites for futher information about abstinance and pregnancy matters. Each site offers different resources and services.
- Abstinence Clearinghouse
- The Abstinence Clearinghouse is a privately funded 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan international educational organization. The Clearinghouse was founded to provide a central location where character, relationship, and abstinence programs, curricula, speakers, and materials could be accessed.
- Care Net
- For over twenty-five years, Care Net has been promoting, equipping, and developing a growing network of pregnancy centers to better serve women and men in their communities.
- Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Information from Option Line
- Provides information on abortion alternatives, free pregnancy tests, adoption, connects you with local centers for free counseling, mapping to local centers, post abortion counseling, help for women.
- California Pregnancy Care Centers
- The Medical Institute is an excellent resource for research findings and current reports on sexually transmitted diseases and other issues affecting sexual health.
- Straight Talk
- An organization that promotes chastity as a positive alternative to the prevailing sex related problems among our youth. Abstinence resources, handouts, and support counseling are also available.
- Sex Respect
- Long-time provider of school curricula and other abstinence resources.
- Project Reality
- In addition to abstinence curricula and related materials, in-service teacher training seminars are provided for all participating schools, as well as a variety of motivational speakers for school assemblies.
- Provides abstinence and character education curricula, materials and research.
- Love Matters
- A site filled with testimonials from sports and movie stars who support sexual abstinence unless marriage. Includes a printable full-color 28 page newspaper with lots of how-to and why info.
- Not Me, Not Now
- Not Me, Not Now is a teen pregnancy prevention program designed to encourage youth ages 9-14 to postpone sexual involvement. The program relies on young kids to deliver an abstinence message to their peers.
Have You Made A
Choice About Sex?
3 out of 4 girls wish
they had said NO to sex
- Common Emotional Effects of Sexual Activity
- Pain from broken relationships
- Fear, confusion about romantic feelings
- Altered self-esteem
- Sense of betrayal and abandonment
- Guilt, depression and emotional roller coaster
- Impaired ability to form healthy long-term relationships