"Wait a minute have you been tested for Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Herpes, Chlamydia, Trichomoniasis, Vaginitis, Urethritis, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, AIDS, HPV, have you been tested for that? Me, no I go to Green Mountain I don't go to Deer Creek. I mean I would need to be tested for that. This girl is in my office thinking that she could be pregnant and she doesn't think she could have a disease?! Astounding!"
In 1964 a fifteen-year-old girl was raped, became pregnant, and decided to carry her unborn child to term. Five months after the baby girl was born, in an act of courage and love the young mother provided her child a better environment by giving her to an adoptive family. That child was me. I am the oldest of 8 children - 7 adopted, 1 biological, and my extended family includes 38 adopted children in all.
Following my graduation from Liberty University with a degree in Psychology, I moved to Minneapolis, MN where I began to work with New Life Family Services, and young girls who were planning to place their children for adoption.
After years of counseling young girls who found themselves in crisis pregnancies, I grew weary of hearing the phrase, NOBODY TOLD ME!! Too many teens were completely unaware of the risks involved with sexual activity, and had never been told about the consequences of their choices. I began to speak to teens on the subject of abstinence in 1992, and have since traveled worldwide, speaking in person to over 500,000 young people each year. My videos have reached millions worldwide. Sex Has a Price Tag has since been translated into 11 languages, and is currently used in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, Ireland, Europe, the Ukraine, Romania, Poland, and throughout Africa.
