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Teen Abstinence Articles
Oxytocin: The Chemical Commitment
Read about this bonding hormone and how to educate teenagers about its effects.
Brain Development
The human brain isn't fully developed until the mid-twenties. How do adolescents' brains affect their decisions especially related to abstinence?
Sexual Abstinence & Academic Achievement
Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.,2005
There is strong and widespread support of teaching sexual abstinence to American teens. Over 90 percent of parents, at a minimum, want teens to be taught to abstain from sexual activity until they have at least finished high school.
Virginity Pledges Successful
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2008
A new study suggests that teens who take virginity pledges delay having sexual intercourse longer than kids who are similar to them but do not take a pledge.
Virginity Pledgers Have Lower STD Rates and Engage in Fewer Risky Sexual Behaviors
Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., 2005
Counter to some recent research, this analysis shows that virginity pledges do make a difference. Virginity pledgers have lower STD rates than non-pledgers, and making virginity pledges is associated with a wide range of positive life outcomes.
Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes
Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Jennifer A. Marshall, 2004 (Center for Data Analysis Report #04-07)
Recently released Add Health survey data indicate that adolescents who make a virginity pledge will have fewer sexual partners and are less likely to experience ...
Adolescents Who Take Virginity Pledges Have Lower Rates of Out-of-Wedlock Births
Kirk A. Johnson, 2004 (Center for Data Analysis Report #04-04)
Young women who take a virginity pledge are about 40 percent less likely to have a child out of wedlock than similar young women who do not make a pledge.
Aspire's 8 Affirmations & Pledge
PDF document lists eight affirmations for teens to choose to live by along with a pledge to sign in recognition of their commitment.
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