Most Youths Break Abstinence Pledges
A Harvard study further confirms that abstinence pledges are basically bunk. Want to dig deeper? Check out Purity Balls.
A Harvard study further confirms that abstinence pledges are basically bunk.
Want to dig deeper? Check out Purity Balls.
Rock Solid JournalismS.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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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, a pro-abstinence program aimed at middle and high schoolers, as one of almost three dozen "evidenced-based" sex education programs that qualify as effective in preventing teenage pregnancy.
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