Posted on 01/01/2009 4:19:17 PM PST by CE2949BB
The U.S. government spends more than $200 million annually on abstinence-promotion programs, including virginity pledges.
The latter approach does not work too well.
A new study of a federal survey taken in the 1990s finds that teens who took virginity pledges are just as likely as other teens to have sex before marriage. Importantly, when the pledgers broke their vows they were less likely to use birth control, including condoms.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Virginity Pledge Doesn’t Stop Teen Sex
12/29/2008 3:39:55 PM PST · by Responsibility2nd
Make them get married, that’ll stop the sex...
My guess is the majority of surveys, studies etc. prove whatever the survey taker wants to prove.
And we're trying to blame teen sex on failed vows? We're trying to claim that it is a waste? It may be the only lesson in morality some teens ever receive. It's worth it even if they break the vow.
Overhaul the entire education system and you'll see major changes.
LOL! You beat me to it. ;)
Human nature is the reason that there are so many of us.
Catholic schools teach evolution and they don’t have near the levels of this badness that the public schools do.
Society removed the stigma attached to out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Don’t want to make the participants feel bad, do we?
“...that they are incapably of controlling themselves and that the best they can do is wear a rubber. They’re taught to be ashamed of their country, their past, their ‘fat’ lifestyle in all regard. They are taught there is no God, that death is the end, that all ‘good’ and ‘bad’ is relative and that our culture is no better than anyone else’s.”
Not what my son’s been taught in our public schools.
This topic has been discussed in several threads. I believe the researcher who disproved the effect of Virginity Pledges started with the premise that the original results showing the pledge worked was not accurate because it did not compare similar subjects. In other words in her study only by comparing teens who had the same values and outlooks on life could a valid conclusion be drawn.
To her it was no fair putting committed Christians who believed sex was for marriage only in with a bunch of teens who were just making outward gestures without any inward morality to bolster those gestures into promises.
So the whole argument virginity pledges do not work is wrong. They work when the person making the pledge has the inner character to believe in what they say.
“Not what my son’s been taught in our public schools.”
Mine either but we’re the lone voices in a vast wasteland.
Christian, Christian In Name Only, atheist, or “whatever” .... most girls give it up before marriage.
The Virginity / Chastity / Good Girl Pledge shouldn’t have been tried on the general population, simply because it won’t work. It requires a moral, spiritual, and community framework that simply doesn’t exist for most teenage girls.
That’s funny!
The important question remains unexamined, which is why do these sweaty adults have such a prurient interest in getting teens to get it on.
You’re right...Where do they get these surveys?? Dp they tap kids on the shoulder?? Do they call them? How many lie with a smile???....
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