Social & Cultural Issues

Straight Talk About Casual Sex
(BLI) The secular mantra, heard from middle school on up, is that sex will make you popular and happy; it's great recreation that is free and fun. 4/24/2008 >>more

Abstinence Programs Cut Sexual Activity in Half
(BLI) The findings soundly refute the accusations of backers of comprehensive sexual education programs who claim that abstinence programs are unproven and ineffective. 4/22/2008 >>more

You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up
(BLI) Strange, but true, headlines from the culture war. 4/18/2008 >>more

Continued Good News on Teen Pregnancy and Abortion
(BLI) Our national leadership needs to continue to keep faith with our nation's teens. 4/17/2008 >>more

Ted Turner Changes His Tune on Religion
(BLI) he controversial founder of CNN Ted Turner, has changed his mind about religion. 4/9/2008 >>more

Size 16 Model Contends for Beauty Title
(BLI) Cloe Marshall is only 17-years-old and at size 16 is the first woman of her size to contending for the national beauty pageant title of Miss England. 4/8/2008 >>more

Graduation Rates Low in Large City Schools
(BLI) A report released by America's Promise Alliance shows that public schools in major cities are in trouble. 4/7/2008 >>more

March Liberal Madness
(BLI) Across college campuses conservative students are playing a game that pits the looniest quotes from leading liberals against each other. 4/7/2008 >>more

Miss Bimbo Game Targets 9 to 13-Year-Old-Girls
(BLI) A controversial internet-based video game has made its way from France, through Britain and is now in the United States. 3/28/2008 >>more

Tell Congress to Fund Programs That Work
(BLI) A study in the American Journal of Health Behavior indicates that students in abstinence programs are 50 percent less likely to engage in sex. 3/25/2008 >>more

Score Two for the Perverts
(BLI) When did being in one's underpants while wearing clothing over them not constitute a reasonable expectation of privacy of your private parts? 3/19/2008 >>more

Evangelical Wiccans?
(BLI) There is an increase in the number of young, professing Evangelicals who are also adopting the belief system of Wicca. 2/22/2008 >>more

Sex Week at Yale
(BLI) he prestigious Yale University has again held their annual Sex Week, a time when the entire school focuses on sex and pornography. 2/21/2008 >>more

Is Tough Love an Oxymoron?
(BLI) The left argues that public policy should be formulated to free teens from the consequences of their mistakes and taxpayer funds should be used to achieve that impossible goal. 1/15/2008 >>more

Selling Morality to an Amoral Public
(BLI) Movies and comedy routines reveal the bankruptcy of the amoral modern liberal ideology -- the chaotic, absurd, impotent, libertine worldview of the Hollywood left. 12/14/2007 >>more

Washington, D.C., The Nation's Capital for HIV Infections
(BLI) A new report details the soaring HIV/AIDS infection rate in our nation's capital. 11/28/2007 >>more

The Leading Ladies of Influence
(BLI) One can only conclude that the Daily Telegraph correspondents think that liberal women have considerably more influence than conservative women. 11/6/2007 >>more

Pornified Halloween
(BLI) There's far more vamp than vampire in this year's selection of Halloween costumes for young girls. 10/29/2007 >>more

Anybody Can Get It?
(BLI) The politically correct mantra about HIV/AIDS is that “anybody can get it" but can they? 10/17/2007 >>more

Will Hollywood Revive Biblical Literacy?
(BLI) A new movie coming out on October 19, The Ten Commandments, addresses Biblical ignorance. 10/3/2007 >>more

College Campuses Encouraging Sexual Activity
(BLI) 9/20/2007 >>more

Many Are Called, But Few Are Heroes
(BLI) Dr. Ernie Steury’s extraordinary dedication to his patients, along with his integration of top-notch medical skills and deep faith, make him a model for medical missionaries. 9/5/2007 >>more

New U.S. Census Data on Poverty
(BLI) 9/3/2007 >>more

The Perennial Child Care Crisis
(BLI) The cliché is that “if working families can’t afford child care, law enforcement will end up taking care of the kids.” 8/29/2007 >>more

The Tell-Tale Touch
(BLI) Seeing that couple with their three children was a lasting image for our minds and hearts on this Sunday morning. 8/29/2007 >>more

Images From a High School Reunion
(BLI) Going back for a high school class reunion sharpened my focus on certain realities. 8/16/2007 >>more

The Calculus of Sexual Experimentation
(BLI) Like Calculus, sex is a tough subject, one that you can’t fool around with – one that requires discipline and self control. 8/9/2007 >>more

Why Is the Teen Pregnancy Rate Dropping?
(BLI) This is further evidence that abstinence programs are having an impact, that they are making a difference for teens. 8/3/2007 >>more

Who Wants to Be a Celebrity?
(BLI) If our national celebrities are any indication, when people don’t have work and worry, they manufacture all sorts of mischief as a substitute. 7/20/2007 >>more

Kids and Marriage No Longer Inseparable
(BLI) In a culture where everybody talks about doing what is best for kids, more and more people are separating marriage from childbearing and childrearing 7/3/2007 >>more

Marriage Lessons From Ruth Graham
(BLI) She took it as her calling to nurture and keep her whole family happy, especially Billy. 6/20/2007 >>more

It Doesn't take Wealth to Leave an Inheritance
(BLI) We have a wonderful heritage - one of which I am enormously proud. 6/15/2007 >>more

Teen Suicide: A Matter of "Sexual Orientation" or Sex Abuse?
(BLI) The true reasons for teen suicide aren't what some activists would have you believe. 6/13/2007 >>more

Commentary: Should Congress restrict violence on TV to later at night when children are most likely not to be watching?
(BLI) With a steady diet of dark and depressing images throughout childhood, it's no wonder depression has increased among teenagers. 5/8/2007 >>more

Why the Left is Attacking Abstinence Programs
(BLI) Common sense says that something has been at work to bring down the rates of sexual activity by teens over the last 15 years. But liberals don't seem interested in common sense. 5/2/2007 >>more

The Virginia Tech Tragedy: Press Conference Statement of Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D.
(BLI) Our hearts ache for the fallen victims and for the unbearable pain of those who loved them and all those whose lives they touched. 4/19/2007 >>more

Imus Comments Symptomatic of Cultural Condition
(BLI) 4/11/2007 >>more

Those Bawdy Bratz Babes
(BLI) Little girls don’t get to “mother” their pretend babies any more; instead, they act out today’s young adult values with the more popular “fashion dolls.” 4/10/2007 >>more

'Plane' Talk About 'Making Love'
(BLI) Stewardess describes five-mile high sex romp in airplane lavatory. 2/21/2007 >>more

Girls Beware: Protect Your Transformation Zone
(BLI) Chances are that few girls know about their transformation zone. 2/19/2007 >>more

In Praise of Virginity
(BLI) The idea that valuing virginity equates to being sexually repressed is, of course, patent nonsense. 2/15/2007 >>more

Teen Sex Leads to Depression and Drug Use
(BLI) there is solid evidence that teen girls who experiment with risky behaviors (i.e., sex and drugs) are more vulnerable to depression. 1/30/2007 >>more

Talking Points: Amniotic Stem Cell Research
(BLI) 1/10/2007 >>more

Sex and Consequences
(BLI) On college campuses, counselors are seeing double the number of depression cases and triple the number of suicidal students. 1/10/2007 >>more

New York Times Admits to a Blatant Lie
(BLI) But No Retraction, No Recriminations, No Firings. How Much Longer Can the Grey Lady Get Away With Sloppy Journalism? 1/4/2007 >>more

Unprotected (5:37)
(BLI) 1/1/2007 >>more

Surprising Reactions to News of Male Contraceptive (4:29)
(BLI) 12/1/2006 >>more

Young Love is a Two-Way Street
(BLI) 8/31/2006 >>more

Plan B Over-the-Counter is Beyond the Pale
(BLI) The plan would unleash a Pandora's Box of problems related to the conflicting roles of doctors and pharmacists in such a commercial arrangement. 8/22/2006 >>more

U.S. is World Leader in Teen Pregnancy and STDs
(BLI) 8/8/2006 >>more

Guttmacher Wants Public Funding For Contraceptives
(BLI) 7/31/2006 >>more

Stem Cell Stampede
(BLI) The debate should be to find facts, not to push celebrity and cockamamie. 7/18/2006 >>more

Another Hit at Abstinence
(BLI) Our nation's teens are once again victims of the left's agenda. 5/2/2006 >>more

Abortion as Birth Control
(BLI) Abortion is no longer primarily an act of teenage desperation. 4/24/2006 >>more

Abstinence Education Banned
(BLI) Rhode Island educator ignores that teen sex can be a life or death matter. 3/28/2006 >>more

Sexual Politics and Walking the Line
(BLI) Are moral values a smorgasbord from which you can pick and choose? 3/27/2006 >>more

Teen Sex and Poverty Are Inextricably Linked
(BLI) Abstinence programs are reducing teen pregnancy, abortions and poverty. 3/22/2006 >>more

“Life is in the Blood”
(BLI) CSI twists Biblical truth to support abortion. 3/21/2006 >>more

Sex and the Underclass: Pregnancy and Poverty
(BLI) Since 1991, childbearing among unwed-black teens has significantly decreased. But why? 3/15/2006 >>more

Pushing Polygamy: “Big Love” is a Big Bore
(BLI) Homosexual creators use HBO program as “nonjudgmental” look at marriage and family. 3/14/2006 >>more

She Had Every Right, but Now She is Dead
(BLI) 3/7/2006 >>more

The Myths and Reality of Living Together Without Marriage
(BLI) Cohabitation has increased nearly 1,000 percent since 1980, and the marriage rate has dropped more than 40 percent since 1960. 2/28/2006 >>more

Love and Sex Without Promises
(BLI) 2/23/2006 >>more

Crouse on ABC World News Tonight
(BLI) 2/2/2006 >>more

Love Potion Number “O”
(BLI) 1/19/2006 >>more

Dr. Janice Crouse on Dayside!
(BLI) 1/18/2006 >>more

First Lady Laura Bush Speaks Out for Abstinence
(BLI) 1/16/2006 >>more

What Works in Preventing Teen Sex
(BLI) 1/9/2006 >>more

The Power of Purity
(BLI) 12/21/2005 >>more

Girls Gone Wild
(BLI) 12/15/2005 >>more

Parental Notification Attacked as Harmful to Teen Health
(BLI) 11/30/2005 >>more

Arbiters of Intolerance
(BLI) 11/3/2005 >>more

Abstinence Education Works!
(BLI) 8/23/2005 >>more

Cohabitation and Children
(BLI) 8/22/2005 >>more

Waxman Blasts Abstinence Web Site
(BLI) 7/28/2005 >>more

Authors Peddle Adult-Themed Books to Young Teens
(BLI) 7/28/2005 >>more

Abstinence Makes Sense: A Common Sense Rationale
(BLI) Ironically, it is the "progressive" sexual agenda that has led us to the health crisis we face today. 7/18/2005 >>more

Pediatricians Shun Abstinence-Only Education
(BLI) 7/7/2005 >>more

President Bush Supports Abstinence at G8 Conference
(BLI) 7/7/2005 >>more

Abstinence or Contraception?
(BLI) 6/17/2005 >>more

Cohabitation: Consequences for Mothers and Children
(BLI) The changes in family structure are profoundly reshaping American society. 6/9/2005 >>more

Counterfeit Consensus
(BLI) 6/3/2005 >>more

Abortion Accuracy
(BLI) 6/2/2005 >>more

Saran Wrap for ‘Safe’ Teen Sex?
(BLI) 5/20/2005 >>more

Research Documents Success of Abstinence Program
(BLI) 4/29/2005 >>more

Barkin Needs to Blink
(BLI) 4/26/2005 >>more

The Ramifications of Terri’s Tragedy
(BLI) 4/1/2005 >>more

Why Terri’s Case is Important
(BLI) 3/21/2005 >>more

How to Talk to Your Child About Sex: The Sex Pyramid
(BLI) 3/16/2005 >>more

Young Teen Sex:
Hottest New Pop Culture Concern
(BLI) What the girls (and guys) don't realize is that they are getting more than they bargained for. 1/28/2005 >>more

The New Post-Choice Movement
(BLI) Every abortion "statistic" is a tragedy for one, lone, individual woman. She experiences the reality of her loss and, for many, haunted dreams. 1/25/2005 >>more

Abortion: America's Staggering Hidden Loss
(BLI) The latest research from BLI indicates that teen abortions are declining and that, increasingly, abortion is becoming birth control. 1/24/2005 >>more

The Condom Con
(BLI) 1/10/2005 >>more

Plastic Surgery - The Fast Track to Happiness?
(BLI) Instead of being temples for the Holy Spirit, teenagers find solace in new bodies. 12/16/2004 >>more

Media Morality - Does It Even Exist?
(BLI) Indecency tops the charts while morality slides down the drain. 12/10/2004 >>more

Abstinence Education's Amazing Progress
(BLI) School and community programs provide a positive message to teens. 11/24/2004 >>more

Former Surgeons General Address Health Policy Challenges
(BLI) 10/27/2004 >>more

Senate Subcommittee Debates Stem-Cell Research
(BLI) 10/1/2004 >>more

International Planned Parenthood Federation Sets Sights on the World’s Girls
(BLI) 9/15/2004 >>more

Doing Your Own Thing
(BLI) Young people "doing their own thing" often end up broken and deserted. 9/14/2004 >>more

"It Don't Come Easy"
(BLI) Gotta pay your dues, if you want to sing the blues. 8/25/2004 >>more

Free Love: Boulevard or Cul-de-Sac
(BLI) Sexual cynicism vs. sexual reality. Which will win? 7/23/2004 >>more

CDC Reports: Condoms Do Not Prevent HPV
(BLI) 7/7/2004 >>more

SIECUS Slams 'Shame-Based' Abstinence
(BLI) Don't fund "unproven" abstinence programs, they say; pour federal funds back into SIECUS. 6/24/2004 >>more

First Lady ‘Gets It’ on Stem-Cell Research and ‘Women’s Issues’
(BLI) 6/10/2004 >>more

Unmarried with Children
Has the Upward Trend of Cohabiting Couples with Children Halted?
(BLI) The painful consequences of single parenthood for children are well-documented. 5/26/2004 >>more

Science Proves the Case
(BLI) The truth substantiated the pro-life arguments. Scientific data backed up the case for life. 5/10/2004 >>more

Abortion Fact Sheet
(BLI) Abortion is facing its most serious threat in decades ... Truth. 4/22/2004 >>more

Limited Horizons
(BLI) 4/12/2004 >>more

Kinsey's Kids
(BLI) The Indiana University sex-guru is still being celebrated. 11/17/2003 >>more

Teen Sex: Question and Answer
(BLI) 11/11/2003 >>more

Damage Control
(BLI) 10/21/2003 >>more

Is Planned Parenthood Liable for Client’s Death?
(BLI) 10/20/2003 >>more

Did Senator Boxer Contribute to Constituent's Death?
(BLI) 10/16/2003 >>more

One Hollywood Step At a Time
(BLI) 9/25/2003 >>more

Margaret's Legacy
(BLI) 8/13/2003 >>more

Results of a Thirty Year Experiment on Women
(BLI) 7/23/2003 >>more

Virginity on the Auction Block
(BLI) 7/22/2003 >>more

Working the Strip in Vegas
(BLI) 7/3/2003 >>more

The Spin on Condoms
(BLI) 6/26/2003 >>more

Will Taypayer Funds Support Forced Abortions?
(BLI) 6/26/2003 >>more

Teen Sex: Fueled by Media Images or Curbed through Good Information?
(BLI) 6/5/2003 >>more

Sex Sells, Right?
(BLI) 5/29/2003 >>more

Was Connor a Baby?
(BLI) A tiny body reveals the Empress NOW has no clothes. 5/12/2003 >>more

The Political Correctness of an Epidemic
(BLI) 5/8/2003 >>more

Prom Promiscuities
(BLI) 4/29/2003 >>more

Let's Talk About Sex
(BLI) 4/24/2003 >>more

"Everybody's Not Doing It"
(BLI) 4/17/2003 >>more

When a Picture Means Life or Death
(BLI) The public's perception of the unborn is changing due to advances in technology. In the long run, a baby's life might be saved by a camera. 4/11/2003 >>more

AIDS Funding: A Good Idea Gone Miserably Bad?
(BLI) 3/31/2003 >>more

Answering Teens' Questions
An Interview with Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse
(BLI) 2/21/2003 >>more

Remarks at Press Conference
(BLI) 2/13/2003 >>more

Psychological Problems Skyrocket Among College Students
(BLI) A just-released study of college students indicates that depression has doubled, suicides have tripled and sexual assault cases have quadrupled. There were increases over the past 13 years in 14 of the 19 problem areas studied. 2/5/2003 >>more

UNSAFE, DEADLY & LEGAL
On Abortion 30 Years After Roe v. Wade
(BLI) One of the most important abortion mantras is "make abortion safe, legal and rare." It is legal, but it is not necessarily safe, and it is certainly not rare. 1/27/2003 >>more

Coming to a Campus Near You
(BLI) 1/23/2003 >>more

The Betrayal of “Choice”
(BLI) 1/16/2003 >>more

Losing Roe
(BLI) 1/15/2003 >>more

No Guts, All Glory
(BLI) As the bad girl of glam magazines, Jane wants her readers to know she corners the market on free sex. 1/7/2003 >>more

Protection Teens Are Still Not Getting
(BLI) 12/19/2002 >>more

Running Scared
(BLI) 12/10/2002 >>more

Rolling Back Pro-Abortion Gains
(BLI) 11/20/2002 >>more

Numbers Don't Lie
(BLI) Abortion in America is down, especially among adolescents, according to a recent study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the policy research arm of Planned Parenthood. 10/22/2002 >>more

Miss America Unplugged
(BLI) 10/15/2002 >>more

Politically Incorrect Prenatal Care
(BLI) The Bush administration announced last week that starting in November, it would allow states to provide government-subsidized health care to fetuses. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson issued the new regulation. 10/2/2002 >>more

Miss America: The Rest of the Story
(BLI) 9/26/2002 >>more

Spinning Sex
(BLI) 9/10/2002 >>more

When the Sanctity of Life Unravels
(BLI) 9/4/2002 >>more

The Power of Sexual Purity
(BLI) 8/15/2002 >>more

India’s Lost Girl Babies: What Might They Have Become?
(BLI) 8/15/2002 >>more

Cohabiting Lacks Commitment
(BLI) 8/1/2002 >>more

More Evidence: Cohabitation Is Poor Training for Marriage
(BLI) 7/11/2002 >>more

Teen Births and the M-Word
(BLI) 6/13/2002 >>more

America's Unwanted Children
(BLI) 6/10/2002 >>more

Sex and Self-esteem in Middle School
(BLI) 5/3/2002 >>more

Two Studies on Binge Drinking Show Serious Problems on Nation's Campuses
(BLI) 4/11/2002 >>more

Decline in Business Forces Closure of Philadelphia Clinic
(BLI) 2/28/2002 >>more

Lethal Combination
(BLI) 2/15/2002 >>more

Not Their Finest Hour
(BLI) 2/1/2002 >>more

Abortion and Depression
(BLI) 1/28/2002 >>more

Sad Anniversary: Cause for Contemplation, not Celebration
(BLI) 1/11/2002 >>more

Cultural Decay Continued
(BLI) 1/4/2002 >>more

Ten Pre-Marital Partners "Normal"?
(BLI) 12/13/2001 >>more

The Empty Promise of the Sexual Revolution
(BLI) 11/20/2001 >>more

Cohabiting Adults More Likely to Drink Heavily
(BLI) 10/26/2001 >>more

The "Blessings" of Democracy?; The Rebirth of Manhood
(BLI) 10/11/2001 >>more

HHS Awards Bonuses for Reduced Unwed Birth Rates, Increased Adoptions; Religion & Parents are Strongest Influences in Delaying Sexual Activity
(BLI) 9/27/2001 >>more

Anti-Abstinence Groups: Teen Sex Is Not Risky Behavior
(BLI) 9/12/2001 >>more

Limited Distribution of RU-486; Court Challenges On Pre-Meal Prayer
(BLI) 4/5/2001 >>more

"With God All Things Are Possible"; Blocking Morning-After Pill Distributions to Minors; Pregnancy-Associated Deaths
(BLI) 3/28/2001 >>more

Mixed Messages: Good News on Abstinence vs. Parents' Advice to Teens
(BLI) 3/1/2001 >>more

Waiting Period Defeated; Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception; Evolution Reinstated
(BLI) 2/15/2001 >>more

Waiting Period; Violent Television Programming; Leading Students to Denounce God
(BLI) 2/12/2001 >>more

A Powerful Statement; Abstinence Not Mentioned
(BLI) 1/30/2001 >>more

Abstinence Pledge Works; Female Infanticide
(BLI) 1/16/2001 >>more

Early Abortion Is Being Marketed as "Pregnancy Prevention"
(BLI) 12/11/2000 >>more

Illegal Use of Funds for Abortion; New Anti-Trafficking Laws Passed; The Case for Marriage
(BLI) 10/11/2000 >>more

Drop in Teen Childbearing: A Ray of Hope
(BLI) 10/1/2000 >>more

Pill-Induced Abortion Approved; Born-Alive Protection Act; The Women's Museum
(BLI) 9/29/2000 >>more

Rapidly Spreading, Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea; Pressure on Nicauragua
(BLI) 9/26/2000 >>more

"Early Option"; Behavior Control; "Divorce Revolution"
(BLI) 9/8/2000 >>more

Human Embryo Cell Research; Commandment Book Covers; "We Still Pray"
(BLI) 8/24/2000 >>more