Wedlock irrelevant to teens
by Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow
There appears to be a growing acceptance of children being conceived out of wedlock among the nation's youth.
In 2002, 25 percent of teenage males admitted to never having sex, the main reason for abstaining being the possibility of pregnancy. However, the latest figures show that number has dropped to 12 percent. Moreover, more male teenagers agree that it is okay for an unmarried female to have a child. That number rose from 50 percent to 64 percent in 2006-2008.
Jimmy Hester, co-founder of the True Love Waits program, speculates one of the reasons for this growing acceptance.
"A lot of celebrities…are modeling that kind of behavior, and our teenagers and young adults pay a lot of attention to those people; they are role models," he notes. "And so they're seeing that kind of behavior going on, and I think it's just becoming more acceptable for out-of-wedlock pregnancies to take place."
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