Sentences with phrase «importance of abstinence»

Guess this didn't include teaching the importance of abstinence prior to marriage.

A comprehensive approach prepares students for their evolving sexuality by educating them about the risks of STD / HIV transmission and unintended pregnancy and impressing upon them the value and importance of abstinence.

We work to serve families as well as to educate communities, churches, and policy makers about the importance of abstinence and relationship education within both youth development and re-entry programs.

It also requires the instruction to stress the importance of abstinence before marriage.

Not exact matches

The blog goes on to say that in the Church's schools, the subject will be «rooted in the teachings of the Church», including «the importance of trust, loyalty, fidelity and the Christian understanding of marriage as the context for sexual relationships, as well as the understanding of abstinence and celibacy as positive life choices».

One was McIntyre's insistence on total abstinence from alcohol, an issue the Machen group considered a matter of Christian liberty, while the Holiness and pietist traditions had long emphasized the importance of a Christian life separated from the world» no alcohol, tobacco, dancing, cards, or theater, along with no short skirts or bobbed hair for women.

Finally, our data emphasize the importance of smoking abstinence.»

«Since [Zika] can be transmitted sexually, providers should counsel pregnant women whose male sexual partners are at risk for Zika virus infection about the importance of condom use or abstinence to prevent Zika virus transmission,» the researchers write.

During a cholera epidemic in 1832, he went around teaching and lecturing on the importance of fresh fruit and vegetables and whole grains in the diet, as well as abstinence from meat and meat products, alcohol and other stimulants or narcotics, correct sleeping, bathing, clothing and exercise habits to avoid cholera, with astounding results.

This study supports the importance of waiting for at least a week of abstinence before establishing a diagnosis of depression.

Sen. Burges also cites the importance of education across Arizona school districts, but excludes Arizona's school children from those she intends to protect, as she supports the largely ineffective abstinence - only sex education instead of comprehensive sex education, preventing students from learning about essential quality of life issues, including how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.