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Looking at the title of a Heritage Foundation study of teen virginity pledgers—“Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes”—it is hard not to be at least somewhat warmer to these ideas. Sadly, studies of this kind provide very little compelling evidence that these programs are effective, even when adolescents are so convinced as to make a virginity pledge. When you control for the number of sexual partners the students had had in the survey, pledgers are in fact more likely on a per partner basis...
...fame in the same way Vladimir Nabokov did, as a decorous entomologist who shocked '50s America with a high-IQ book about sex. At Indiana University Kinsey first scandalized the academic community with lectures on sex and then with his books that itemized the frequency of masturbation among teen boys and the, shall we say, animal husbandry of farmhands...
...Increasing unemployment, a dwindling population, crippling budget cuts, a surge in crime and increasing hopelessness along with the influx of crack cocaine and heroin, all combined to make Pittsfield an environment that sustained an epidemic of teen parenthood and a host of other social ills,” Lipper described in a summary of her book...
...explained, these adolescents create some sense successfulness for themselves by forming a family. “No one had ever told them about opportunities to work towards, and there wasn’t really a rite of passage” like going to college, she said. As a result, teen mothers “use the resources they have” to create one for themselves...
Mary D’Apice, a member of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy’s fundraising committee, called the event “eye opening,” adding that she was “very happy to see so many people in the Harvard community interested. “If we can intervene,” D’Apice asserts, “society is going to be better off.” In terms of this event, D’Apice remains optimistic, affirming, “One intervention has a huge ripple effect...