A professional group wants to use drugs on sexually confused children. The Endocrine Society wants to use the drugs to delay puberty for children with gender-identity problems. Caleb Price of Focus on the Family tells OneNewsNow the drugs are designed to give adolescents more time to decide which gender they prefer for themselves.

"Well, there's been an increasing push in the medical and psychological communities to try and somehow more easily facilitate gender-confused people to transition to the gender of their choice," he explains.

Price says Focus on the Family has caught a lot of heat for referring to this philosophy as "ethical bankruptcy." He contends teens are not stable enough emotionally to make a decision of such magnitude.

"We see this as a situation that's tragic, foolish, and unconscionable for a professional medical group to encourage young people to move forward on a road where they might be making a decision about changing their gender," he adds.

According to Price, the drug treatment program is another example of parents and physicians bowing to political correctness and to the demands and feelings of young people.

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  • Respect for the contributions of men to the family Marriage as a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman
  • Lifelong spousal cooperation as a solution to women’s aspirations for career and family
  • Cooperation, not competition, between men and women
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Projects of the Ruth Institute.

  • Campus Speakers Bureau, bringing lectures and debates to pro-life, pro-marriage student groups around the country, at minimal cost to the students.
  • Gay Marriage Affects Everyone: a workshop series explaining the importance of man-woman marriage. Offered to churches and other non-profit organizations.
  • Student Essay Contests, to reward and identify young people who share the Ruth Institute’s vision.
  • “Life in the HOV Lane,” You-Tube Video Contest: Wacky Things That Could Only Happen in a Big Family.
  • PADS: Parents Against Dumb Sex: an advocacy group for parents and grandparents concerned about the culture of sexual license.
  • Week-end Seminars for students and young adults, giving them the tools they need to defend the family to their peers and to prepare for married life
  • Assist Students in Organizing pro-life, pro-family clubs on their own campuses.
  • Research and Research Dissemination Program.
  • Week-end Seminars for Engaged Couples: potentially for the “tough cases” of the churches, couples who are currently cohabiting, and resistant to Christian teaching.
  • The Ruth Institute Supper Club (RISC) bringing high quality pro-family speakers to San Diego County.
  • Ruth Institute Books publishing project, bringing research to the public in the form of books, booklets, research briefs, audio CD’s and DVD’s.