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New Pediatrics study: Virginity pledges don't work -- and teens deny taking them, even when they did!
Corrente — Obama's not doing to fund this crap, right? President George W. Bush’s administration more than doubled the budget for abstinence-only education programs since 1999 to $204 million this fiscal year. Please, can we get some science into this discussion? Money's tight, except for the bankers, of course, so why fund the delusions of Christianist propagandists? Teenagers who pledged to avoid sex until marriage were as likely to have intercourse as other U.S. adolescents, according to a survey of conduct mostly in 1990s. Teens who took the pledge also were less likely to use birth ...

Spinning virginity pledge success as failure
Uncommon Misconceptions — I’ve been wanting to take a good look at the studies that claim that abstinence-only education is a failure, but have never had the time. I’m bothered by the obvious bias in the researchers who perform these studies, especially since it seems pretty obvious that telling kids to have sex safely will result in sexual activity, while telling them to ...