A Nation in Peril

May 9, 2007 - comments: 3

On today’s broadcast, Dr. Land examines the symptoms of a society in trouble. Abortion, Divorce, Child Abuse and Pornography are just some of the self inflicted wounds that are crippling our society. These are big problems that can only be solved if God sends us a spiritual revival.

You’ll hear all this and more on today’s For Faith and Family!

Alarming Statistics

  • Less than half of our children currently grow up in intact families. The divorce rate in America is 45-50 percent for first marriages, 60-67 percent for second marriages, and 70-73 percent for third marriages.(1)
  • Every year in the last ten years there has been a 400 percent increase in child abuse significant enough to require a doctor’s attention.(2)
  • Every hour our children watch 20 violent acts on television.(3)
  • Every day in America nearly 2,800 teenage girls get pregnant.(4)
  • Every day in America 1,106 of those girls snuff out the lives of their unborn children through abortion.(5)
  • About 8 out of every 100,000 teenagers committed suicide in 2000. For every teen suicide death, experts estimate there are 10 other attempts.(6)
  • By the time they graduate from high school, 54 percent of our teenagers acknowledge that they have used one or more illegal drugs.(7)
  • At 13.3 billion dollars a year, the 2006 revenues of the sex and porn industry in the U.S. are more than the revenues of professional football, basketball, and baseball combined. Worldwide sex industry sales for 2006 are reported to be 97 billion dollars. To put this in perspective, Microsoft, which sells the operating system used on most of the computers in the world (in addition to other software) reported sales of 44.8 billion dollars in 2006.(8)
  • One out of every 4 girls and 1 out of every 6 boys in the United States will be sexually molested by the time they reach their 16th birthday.(9)
  • Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 46 seconds. Every day 4 women are killed by their domestic partner.(10)
  • Prior to 1960 there were only two significant sexually-transmitted diseases: syphilis and gonorrhea. Both were easily treatable with antibiotics. In the next two decades this began to change. Today there are approximately 25 STDs, and a few can be fatal. Approximately 1 in 5 Americans between the ages of 15 and 55 are currently infected with one or more STDs, and 12 million Americans are newly infected each year. That’s nearly 5 percent of the entire American population. Of these new infections, 63 percent are in people under the age of 25.(11)
  • We as Americans have aborted nearly 50 million babies since 1973.(12)

1. “Divorce Statistics” [online] 2004 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.divorcestatistics.org/
2.”National Incidence Study” [online] 2006 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.childabuse.com/fs13.htm
3.”Children and Television Violence” [online] 15 April 2007 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.abelard.org/tv/tv.htm
4. “Statistics on Teens” [online] 20207 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.soundvision.com/Info/teens/stat.asp
5. “Teen Statistics” [online] n.d. [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:RN54F1bmMxwJ:www.josh.org/notes/file/Internet16-TeenStatistics.pdf+teens+who+get+abortions+stats&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari
6. “Teen Suicide Statistics” [online] 2005 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.teendepression.org/articles1.html
7. “Preventing Teen Drug Abuse” [online] 2007 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.cqpress.com/product/Researcher-Preventing-Teen-Drug-Use.html
8. “Statistics and Information on Pornography in the US” [online] 2005 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.blazinggrace.org/pornstatistics.htm
9. “Keep Your Children Safe” [online] n.d. [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://sound-learning.com/child_molesters_wabash_indiana.htm
10. “Stop Violence” [online] 2006 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.safetyforwomen.com/start.htm
11. “The Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Diseases” [online] July 2002 [cited 22 April 2007]. Available on the Internet: http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/epid-std.html
12. “Abortion in the United States: Statistics and Trends,” National Right to Life [online], n.d. [cited 2 April 2007]. Available from the Internet: http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html

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topic(s): Faith, Bible, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Church and State

3 comments (post your own) feed

1 On May 9th, 2007, at 11:31am, Charles Quigley wrote:

I enjoy your broadcast on KCBI - Dallas. Often I am alarmed by the data given.  Are the statics given at the beginning of the 5/9/07 program available in hard copy (e-mail?  If so would you please send them to me.

Thank you

2 On May 11th, 2007, at 3:08pm, Sulyn Wilkins wrote:

The statistics that you are seeking have now been posted with that day’s programming on our website for the program on 05/09/07.  Thank you for listening and for your interest in our program.

3 On May 26th, 2007, at 7:24pm, Mike McDonald wrote:

I was looking for the program where you quoted from C.S. Lewis’s “The Abolition of Man.” I think it was May 9. Could I have the full text or possibly a CD of the entire program?

Available? How much?

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