abstention vs facts of life

abstention

noun
  • Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs. 

  • The act of declining to vote on a particular issue. 

  • The act of abstaining or refraining (from). 

facts of life

noun
  • knowledge of sexual reproduction (almost always used with the) 

How often have the words abstention and facts of life occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )