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What?s a virginity pledge really worth? About 18 months of abstinence, apparently.
A new study financed by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and conducted by researchers at Columbia and Yale found that teenagers who publicly promise to postpone sex until marriage refrain from intercourse substantially (roughly a year and a half) longer than teens who didn?t make...
Sex-education advocates say they are pleased by the study?s results as well, but warn against placing too much weight on the behaviors of a relatively small group of teenagers. They also worry that teaching abstinence in the absence of other sex education - as some of these programs do...
"Our biggest concern is that those teenagers who do have sex after they?ve taken a pledge were less likely to use contraception than those who?d never taken a pledge," heightening that group's risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, says Dr. Jacqueline Darroch of the Alan Guttmacher...
"Our biggest concern is that those teenagers who do have sex after they've taken a pledge were less likely to use contraception than those who'd never taken a pledge," heightening that group's risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, says Dr. Jacqueline Darroch of the Alan Guttmacher...