Welp, here are a few facts I ran across a couple of weeks back that deal with teenage pregnancy.
Prior to the 1960s, the rate of illegitimate pregnancies for unmarried black girls was around 20%, while the rate for white girls of the same age was in the low single digits.
Enter the sexual revolution, with its notions of free sex, free love, sex education, free condoms, and contempt for the old moral beliefs and sexual mores. Sex is everywhere, in books, magazines, radio, tv, and popular novels. Our kids are inundated with it. End result, pregnancy rates for unwed teenage girls have skyrocketed: the 20% rate for unwed black girls is now at 70%, and that of unwed white girls is at 20%.
Crockett, while you may laugh at the teaching of abstinence, it at least harkens back to a time when such religious based sexual behaviors actually worked. The more "modern" approach that you advocate has been an unmitigated disaster.