You must have seen the headlines this week. “Virginity Pledges Don’t Stop Teen Sex.” “Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds.” Or how about this one: “Virginity Pledges Fail to Trump Teen Lust in Look at Older Data.”
But William McGurn at the Wall Street Journal takes a closer look :
The pledge itself is not what distinguishes these kids from most other teenagers. The real difference is their more conservative and religious home and social environment . . . . When you compare both groups in this study with teens at large, the behavioral differences are striking . . . . The real headline from this study is this: “Religious Teens Differ Little in Sexual Behavior Whether or Not They Take a Pledge.”
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