Posted on 05/20/2005 10:16:12 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Teens who remain virgins throughout high school may think they're missing out on some of the fun, but the reality is their sexually active peers are the ones missing out.
The study: A new study from the Christian group Focus on the Family analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth that was conducted in waves from 1979 to 2000 with 3,750 men and 3,620 women. It controlled for ethnicity and previous educational or economic disadvantage. About half the students were virgins at 18 and half were not. Students were surveyed at age 18 and again at age 38.
The results: When the two groups were evaluated 20 years after their high school graduation, the data showed that both the male and female high school students who remained virgins at least until age 18 enjoyed huge advantages as adults, compared to those who had had sex in high school:
1. They completed an average of one year more of higher education."It is very much as we suspected--that adolescent virginity has a significant impact on well-being in middle adulthood," said lead study author Reginald Finger, M.D. "We found, as well, that these better outcomes were not merely the result of avoiding teenage pregnancy or fatherhood. The outcomes are inherent to remaining abstinent. In addition, we found that female virgins were more likely than their non-virgin counterparts to have a positive financial net worth and were almost half as likely as non-virgins to use welfare benefits."
2. Their incomes were 20 percent higher.
3. They had about half the risk of divorce.
The research findings were published in the journal Adolescent and Family Health.
Obviously there would be a correlation, but I'm not sure they have the right direct causation of being "virgins". Their virginity is a sign of having self control, morals, ethics, etc., and, as such, would carry that same integrity over into other aspects of their lives as well. Integrity is the issue, not "virginity" per se.
It sounds like you used to have a lot of relationship problems. I hope things are going better for you now.
Thanks for posting this. Fornication is for fools and losers. Love is the most precious gift in the universe and to honor it is to honor the creator.
Nah, I'm a guy. For a guy 18-20 years of age that is no problem at all, believe me.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Which would tend to skew the survey towards "waiting" being good when it's really not the "waiting" but the type of people that "wait".
That's what I was trying to say earlier.
"virgins when we met at 20. Twenty-nine years of marraige and two stable and successful careers later, we are retiring next month."
Retiring from virginity, marriage or real estate?
; ^)
Please tell me you aren't both still virgins.
"some just lack the social skills necessary to get de-virginized."
And some have the character and choose to say NO to peer pressure and screaming hormones, until marriage.
You sound like the girl I dated in highschool.
I am waiting until I am married. If that makes me a weird male, than so be it. But, I try to obey God's Word.
That doesn't mean I don't have urges like everybody else.
LOL! Amazing how it takes a study for some people to recognize the very obvious.
"You sound like the girl I dated in highschool."
This man is NOT that girl you dated--but I say NO to you too! < grin >
...SHE sounds like my kind of lady, one that's waiting for the man that's waiting for her.
Sister Mary Margaret and I are planning a long and happy retirement together.
I wish I waited (waited till I was errr... of a certain older age) till marriage. Sex is overrated and wasted on male trolls.
Or some people aren't attractive enough. Wow we actually agree.
That's great. You won't pass on a sex disease to your wife.
That couldn't possibly be true.
The secret of their success, it is called self discipline.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.