1. More than 1.5 billion young people (ages 10-24) live in the world today.
2. In the least developed countries, only 3% of girls and 22% of boys enroll in secondary schools.
3. Seventy three million adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 are working worldwide.
4. Adolescent abortions (1998) are estimated between 1 to 4.4 million a year.
5. Ten percent of births occur to unwed mothers between the ages of 15-19.
6. In 1977, One in 5,000 to 10,000 children died from physical violence in the home (WHO 1977).
Any discussion of the Christian value of life should incorporate the objective of human life, which is eternal life. When God reveled Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He said He was not the God of the dead, but of the living (Matt. 22:37). This implies that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were not dead in the sense of cessation of existence, but living. The expression "Abraham's bosom," which is often used as a synonym for heaven, implies fellowship with Abraham at a meal. Jesus said to the repentant thief on the cross "today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43).