Do Not Tell Your Kids About Abstinence?

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“Do not tell your kids about abstinence, because if you do they will be curious about it and will go out and have sex.” Ridiculous! We don’t use this irrational logic in reference to other things. For example, we don’t avoid warning our kids about murdering and stealing, thinking they will be curious about it and will go out and murder and steal. No, we admonish them against it, because we do not want them to do it! We know telling them “not to” is the best method for getting them not to do it. “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).