Publications

Marriage & the family

Sex education briefing

Sex education briefing

July 2009

Included in this briefing:

  • Compulsory sex ed for primary schools
  • "Disastrous" teen pregnancy strategy, says professor
  • Girls growing up too quickly
  • Promoting marriage in school
  • Kids, 7, to chat about anal and oral sex
  • Much more...
Prostitution briefing

Prostitution briefing

Policing and Crime Bill

June 2009

Included in this briefing:

  • Government plans changes to the law on prostitution
  • Current law does not criminalise buying or selling sex
  • Statistics on the level of prostitution
  • Christian care and concern for prostitutes
  • 'Softly, softly' approach of other nations fails
  • Much more...
Undermining the age of consent

Undermining the age of consent

Part 4 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill 2008

November 2008

Proposals from the Scottish Government will allow teenagers as young as 13 to legally engage in oral sex and other forms of sexual activity. This booklet explains why these proposals would leave children more vulnerable to sexual abuse and send out the wrong message to teenagers.

Submission to the Northern Ireland Office’s Consultation on the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

Age of consent

A response to the consultation on the Sexual
Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

February 2008

This booklet sets out why the age of consent in Northern Ireland should not be reduced from 17 to 16.

Prostitution Law Reforms briefing

Prostitution Law Reforms

December 2007

A briefing on the Government's plans to weaken the law on prostitution.

Imposing homosexual
adoption on Northern Ireland

August 2006

A summary of the effects of allowing joint adoption by homosexual and cohabitating heterosexual couples, in Northern Ireland.

Gender Recognition Bill

January 2004

A briefing on planned transsexual-rights legislation. There are serious implications for religious liberty.

Children as trophies?

Children as trophies?

2002

Patricia Morgan

Examining the evidence on same-sex parenting.

©2002 The Christian Institute

Locking Up Parents (Scotland)

May 2002

Unworkable laws will catch ordinary parents.

Sidelining Stability and Security (Adoption Law)

March 2002

The case against abandoning the current grounds for adoption

Transsexualism

February 2002

A briefing from the Christian Institute

Counterfeit Marriage

January 2002

How 'civil partnerships' devalue the currency of marriage

Consultation on Draft "Sex and Relationships Guidance for Schools"

A response from The Christian Institute to consultation produced by the National Assembly for Wales.

Locking up Parents?

Northern Ireland

January 2002

A response to the Northern Ireland Executive's consultation on the physical punishment of children.

Update - Issue 1

2002

The free UK-wide newsletter of The Christian Institute.

Updating supporters on issues the Christian Institute is working on, including: the physical discipline of children; the EU employment directive and the General Teaching Council's draft professional code.

Consultation Paper on the
Regulation of R18 Videos

A response by The Christian Institute to the regulations produced by the Home Office

A Manifesto for Marriage
in sex education

March 2001

This booklet sets out five positive principles for sex education which we would like to see adopted by all Scottish schools.

Promoting Promiscuity

The morning after pill

January 2001

Why the Government should not be making the morning after pill more widely available.

Promoting Promiscuity (summary)

The morning after pill

January 2001

A brief four-page summary of the above report.

STDs: The Facts

January 2001

A quick-reference guide to the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.

Marriage - Worth Fighting For

November 2000

A response to the Scottish Executive's public consultation on reforming the Family Law.

Locking up Parents?

April 2000

A response to the Government's public consultation on the physical punishment of children.

Government education Body Declares: "No Consensus on the Value of Marriage"

1997

©1997 The Christian Institute

Throwing in the Towel

1997

Jennifer Mills

A response to calls for the legalisation of prostitution.

©1997 The Christian Institute

Family disintegration and the Retreat from Common Sense

1995

Norman Dennis, Sociologist

©1995 The Christian Institute


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