What else is new?
The federal oath of office doesn’t seem to protect the Constitution, either.
When you’re a teen, the spirit (well-intentioned as it might be) is weak and the flesh is willing.
ping.
I’m always leery of studies that simply ask people to answer questions. I don’t think they always answer honestly, sometimes they try to give an answer they think the questioner is looking for, or they are embarrassed to be truthful, or they don’t really care and so they just put whatever. I wouldn’t base public policy on these types of *studies*.
But for the degenerates of the left the truth means nothing compared to the Cause.
“Virginity Pledge May Lead to Risky Sex “
MAY lead...
However the secular-humanist-anything-goes sex mentality GUARANTEES risky sex.
"Rosenbaum focused on about 3,400 students who had not had sex or taken a virginity pledge in 1995. She compared 289 students who were 17 years old on average in 1996, when they took a virginity pledge, with 645 who did not take a pledge but were otherwise similar. She based that judgment on about 100 variables, including their attitudes and their parents' attitudes about sex and their perception of their friends' attitudes about sex and birth control."
I think they better focus on the girls? Because I just don’t think most teenage boys have the ability to say no to sex with girls unless:
A) They’re very scared.
B) They’re confused about their sexuality.
C) They’re gay.
Little boys are like animals. From what I recall anyway.
Well, the solution is obvious. If you want healthy, well-adjusted children, raise them in a brothel.
/sarc
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The raw data shows that people who take the pledge are less sexually active than those who do not.
SO they tried to “adjust” for hundreds of characteristics, suggesting that those who take pledges are predisposed to not having sex.
Then, they suggest that, adjusting for those factors, those who take the pledge are more active than they would be if they didn’t take a pledge.
Well, it does make sense that people who take a pledge are likely to be people who feel it necessary to get “extra help” to keep from being active. So in fact if you adjusted for every other factor, and you had two people who had the same religious and sociological background, the person who took the pledge would be the one who was more likely to have sex.
Add to this the fact that the pledge is used by kids who have already HAD sex in order to try to stop, and this particular study is useless.
Of course, I still want to know why it costs the government 200 million dollars to “teach abstinence”.
“Don’t have sex”. Can I just get $1 million, and I’ll tape my lesson and put it on the internet. :-)
SO long as we insist on having years of “sex education”, the liberals will find a way to make it about spending all our money and teaching kids to ignore moral standards.
“Two previous studies have suggested that virginity pledges can delay sex, but researchers say those studies did not account for pre-existing differences between pledgers and non-pledgers.”
Sounds like the “researchers” are cooking the books.
If I read this correctly, it seems this latest study shows that pledge takers do engage in less pre-marital sex, but it is not the pledge that makes the difference, but the fact that those who have strong moral values and/or religious beliefs are more likely to make pledges in the first place.
That said, as a Christian, I am not a big fan of these virginity pledges because:
1) To me they seem to depend upon human effort and pledges instead of upon the power of God and walking in the Spirit.
2) It seems wrong for Christians to make a big deal about, and patting themselves on the back for “pledging” to simply follow the clear commands of the New Testament. Proclaiming Christ as one’s Lord and Savior assumes the rejection of sex outside of marriage. A virginity pledge makes no more sense to me than a pledge not to murder or steal.
“No sex please, we’re daddy’s little girls”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806226/posts
Any one recall this thread?
This may be the first time lefties have ever studied the effectiveness of a government program. Of course there are very few programs they don’t like.
But they wouldn’t think of scrutinizing any of their useless liberal government programs.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I could teach teenage boys how to avoid sex.
Lesson 1)Don’t talk to girls.