Broken promises.BOSTON -- A Harvard study of 14,000 adolescents has found that about half of teens who take "virginity pledges Virginity pledges (or abstinence pledges) are commitments made by teenagers and young adults to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage. They are most common in the United States, especially among Evangelical Christian denominations. " abandon them within a year, reports the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). . The pledges, introduced by the Christian Sex Education Project in the early 1990s, have been taken by about 2.5 million adolescents and are part of many religious abstinence-only sex education Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that emphasizes abstinence from sex to the exclusion of all other types of sexual and reproductive health education, particularly regarding birth control and safe sex. programs. Not everyone was convinced. "The report is wrong," said Janice Crouse, a fellow at a Concerned Women for America Concerned Women for America is a conservative Christian political action group active in the United States. The group was founded in 1979 by Beverly LaHaye, wife of Christian Coalition co-founder Timothy LaHaye, as a response to activities by the National Organization for Women and think tank. "Those who make virginity pledges have shown greater resolve to save sex for marriage." |
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