1.0 link 153928 <![CDATA[Study: 'Virginity Pledges' Are Ineffective]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/29/study-virginity-pledges-a_n_153928.html According to a study released earlier today, teenagers who have taken a "virginity pledge" are still just as likely to engage in premarital sex than those who have not pledged their abstinence. But worse than that, the study found that those same abstinence-swearing teenagers are far less likely to use a form of birth control - condoms, etc - when they do become sexually active.

The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of...
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