Virginity Pledges Can't Be Taken on Faith

[MountainLaurel]

So these kids are not only breaking the pledge, but they're also LYING about ever having taken the pledge to begin with, once they become sexually active? Now, those are good KKKristian values, aren't they?

So, these programs serve what purpose? To make teens feel so guilty about being sexual creatures that they can't be honest about it and are less likely to practice safe sex? Eh?

:mad:

Many abstinence programs have embraced the concept of virginity pledges, encouraging children as young as 9 to promise to wait until marriage to have sex.

So how reliable are reports of sexual activity by teenagers who took such a pledge?

Not very, according to a study by Harvard doctoral candidate Janet Rosenbaum published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Rosenbaum found that 53 percent of adolescents in a large, federally funded study who said they made a virginity pledge denied doing so a year later, often after they had become sexually active.

At the same time, 10 percent of teenagers who said they had had intercourse and then made a pledge or became born-again Christians subsequently said they were virgins.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/15/AR2006051500842.html