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Virginity Pledge Doesn’t Stop Teen Sex
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| 12/29/2008
| Jennifer Warner
Posted on 12/29/2008 3:39:55 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: RichInOC
They should give all the kids saltpeter (or Lexapro). It’ll prevent all those special elections.
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posted on
12/29/2008 4:34:07 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Responsibility2nd
A pledge doesn’t stop anyone from doing anything they are going to do anyway. It’s the character of the person making the pledge, not the volume of his/her voice that will determine whether that person follows the pledge or not.
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posted on
12/29/2008 4:34:59 PM PST
by
IMissPresidentReagan
(I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job. www.reaganaction.com)
To: Responsibility2nd
What it shows, with all the book-cooking we’ve come to expect from the scientific culture-of-death community, that a virginity pledge alone is not a significant factor in chosing a chaste lifestyle, and that “religious beliefs and attitudes toward sex and birth control” do matter.
Since 90 percent of pledgers in the study denied even taking the pledge, none of this should be surprising.
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posted on
12/29/2008 4:40:06 PM PST
by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: Responsibility2nd
Researchers say the federal government spends about $200 million annually on abstinence promotion programs, which include virginity pledges. Hard to believe. A government program that doesn't have the intended effect? The stupid parents don't even have to do anything but stand aside and let Uncle Sugar do his thing, and still the little brats don't get the message. Maybe 24-hour-a-day video surveillance by a federal watchdog agency would do the trick. I think I will email the incoming Secty. of Health and Human Services with a proposal. Anybody know who that is?
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posted on
12/29/2008 4:45:20 PM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: brytlea
I suspect the best way to cut back on teenage sex is for kids to be better supervised by adults. This nails the real issue.
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posted on
12/29/2008 5:51:39 PM PST
by
Salman
To: wagglebee
Bookmark for later reading.
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posted on
12/29/2008 6:10:03 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
To: Responsibility2nd
This is the most stupidiest study that I have ever seen. Are they kidding?
America has been saturated by sexuality through our media (Hollyweird and the MSM) all throughout my lifetime.
I grew up in the 80’s when the MSM first started reporting heavily on the AIDs epidemic. I remember that at the time I thought that their would be LESS promotion of sexuality and light porn and all types of porn in the main stream media but instead throughout my entire life it has steadily increased to become more an more open and more and more perverse and more and more shocking.
How anyone could act like simply trying to shelter yourself from all of this and pledge to be pure would stand an honest chance for kids growing up is beyond me.
It is sick how liberal sexually this society has become, imo.
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posted on
12/29/2008 6:27:41 PM PST
by
TheBigIf
To: Salman
And so, of course, it will never be addressed.
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posted on
12/29/2008 7:26:54 PM PST
by
brytlea
(You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I could teach teenage boys how to avoid sex.
Lesson 1)Don’t talk to girls.
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posted on
12/30/2008 3:31:01 AM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Responsibility2nd
I don't believe this garbage even for a second. I know two sets of teens--those who are in the Catholic homeschooling groups we belong to and those who attend regular public and private schools.
The Catholic homeschoolers are all waiting for marriage--and are not ashamed to say so. The "regular school" kids are almost all sexually active--and not ashamed to say so.
Anecdotal? Maybe. But what am I supposed to believe, a counter-intuitive, politically motivated study or my lying eyes?
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posted on
12/30/2008 7:50:30 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it. - Mark Sanford)
To: exist
Because I just dont think most teenage boys have the ability to say no to sex with girls unless: A) Theyre very scared. B) Theyre confused about their sexuality. C) Theyre gay.
Nonsense. I managed to say no to sex many times before I was married, and not for any of the above reasons. Why? Because I sincerely believed that you should save intercourse for marriage. Admittedly, it became a lot more difficult to wait once I was engaged.
That said, I think boys should be taught that it's a virtue to be strong and resist sexual temptation before marriage--that they are actually more of a man if they don't use girls like cheap hookers. And that they should avoid girls that act like skanks like the plague.
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posted on
12/30/2008 8:02:28 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it. - Mark Sanford)
To: Responsibility2nd; Enchante; brytlea; wagglebee; All
As I wrote in my post #8, at “Condom Nation,” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155885/posts
the only thing proven is that kids with similar backgrounds will demonstrate similar behavior.
The article in question can be downloaded at
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/123/1/e110
The final “wave 3” data came from what the author calls “adolescents” — who were 22 years old. Data from those who had married was treated as “missing.”
We don’t know anything about the actual sex ed courses that the students took, who paid for the course, or whether they actually took a course or just made a pledge.
I’m not strong on statistics, but isn’t this just too much manipulation of the data?
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posted on
12/30/2008 8:16:34 AM PST
by
hocndoc
(http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.))
To: exist
A) Theyre very scared.
B) Theyre confused about their sexuality.
C) Theyre gay.
Well I took a virginity pledge near the time this study was conducted and I ended up abstaining till marriage, so which was I? I was accused of B) and C) by immature classmates for refusing sex, but I'm now happily married to a woman, so that leaves A). I thought it was my sense of moral responsibility and convictions, but I guess I must have just been "very scared."
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