“Consider these observations about life in our country today: In the last fifty years there has been an increase of more than 500% in violent crime. There are more than half a million abortions each year. Since 1970, the divorce rate has quadrupled. The overall number of divorces may have declined recently, but it is due more to people not getting married in the first place. More than 40% of children today do not live with both their biological parents. Since the 1970s, the percentage of children living in single-parent homes has tripled. As the family has broken down, here is what has been happening to our young: a quadrupling in juvenile arrests, a 400% increase in births outside of wedlock, one million teenage pregnancies annually, three million teenagers treated annually for sexually transmitted diseases, a 200% increase in the rate of teenage suicide, a drop in average SAT scores, two-thirds of high school students have experimented with illegal drugs. In the schools, one cannot pray or mention religion, yet condoms are freely available and all sorts of aberrant and alternative lifestyles and philosophies are openly promoted. Parental consent is required for a child to go on a field trip or to get an aspirin, but in many states abortion referrals can be made without parental consent. Our neighborhoods are devastated by poverty, injustice, crime, and despair.”