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Bill
11-16-2007, 08:51 PM
This shouldn't be surprising - this is the new broken america - we teach everyone that promises should be forgotten.

Like, say, the promise to get Bin Laden. Now wingers deny that getting UBL was ever important.

http://www.livescience.com/health/071116-bad-pledges.html

Virginity

Among teens who pledged abstinence or virginity until marriage, for example, one study found that almost 90 percent of them broke their vow, and those teens had the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as non-pledgers.

A 2006 Harvard study found that more than half of adolescents who make such signed, public promises give up on their pledges within one year.

Even more tellingly, three quarters of whose who took the pledge and had sex anyway later denied having made the pledge in the first place!

Moby
11-17-2007, 12:16 AM
The abstinent thing is the most absurd government plan in the history of America. Sure we're getting married much later and having fewer kids but our biological clock starts in high school and you need to teach kids how to deal with it.

Little Red Dog
11-17-2007, 01:08 PM
Teenagers been having sex since the dawn of time. Thus it has been, and thus it will always be. You just can't combine peak development of sexual hormones and traditionally impulsive behavior patterns and expect something different.

And once again, pretending it 'anit so doesn't change anything.

Peregrine
11-17-2007, 04:05 PM
The abstinent thing is the most absurd government plan in the history of America. Sure we're getting married much later and having fewer kids but our biological clock starts in high school and you need to teach kids how to deal with it.

It all starts at home...you need to be open and able to talk to your teens. I almost croacked when my 16yr old daughter said she was ready to have sex with her boyfriend..we spent time talking...she made some good arguments, I made mine and in the end it was off to planned parenthood. I know if I had fought against it, it would happen anyway...much better to be prepared...
I agree signing a pledge does not cut it....