The Detroit News. What the study, and my experience, shows is that churches are willing to do that. But candidly talking about sex remains controversial in many black churches. But we have to teach what the parents want.
Most parents prefer churches to teach abstinence more than anything else.
We don't give teachers the same spiritual credence. Kenney said that in his church youth ministers, doctors and other health professionals begin talking to children about sex as early as age 10.