Abstinence Only Education
Yet another study that shows that abstinence only sex education programs are ineffective.
"This study of about 1,000 teens comes from Johns Hopkins researcher Janet Rosenbaum, who compared teens who took a pledge of abstinence with teens of similar backgrounds and beliefs who didn't. She found absolutely no difference in their sexual behavior, or the age at which they began having sex, or the number of their partners.
In fact, the only difference was that the group that promised to remain abstinent was significantly less likely to use birth control, especially condoms, when they did have sex...What makes this study important is this: "virginity pledges" are one of the ways that the government measures whether abstinence-only education is "working." "