Most Youths Break Abstinence Pledges

Posted on May 10, 2006

From generationsoflight.myicontrol.com

A scene from a “Purity Ball"--a dance in which fathers goad their daughters into pledging to remain virgins until marriage. The majority of such pledges, according to a recent Harvard study, don’t last a year.

A Harvard study further confirms that abstinence pledges are basically bunk.

Want to dig deeper? Check out Purity Balls.

S.F. Chronicle:

BOSTON — Virginity pledges, in which young people vow to abstain from sex until marriage, have little staying power among those who take them, a Harvard study has found.

More than half of the adolescents who make the signed public promises give up on their pledges within a year, according to the study released last week.

The findings have raised the ire of Concerned Women for America, a prominent conservative organization that advocates adolescent sexual abstinence.

“The Harvard report is wrong,” said Janice Crouse, a fellow at a Concerned Women for America think tank.

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