Religion may be the key factor to keep teens in the U.S. abstaining from sexual intercourse until they are older.
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which looked data gathered from nearly 1,000 teens.
It was found that teens who took the virginity pledge varied little from from teens who did not when it came to their actually waiting to have intercourse.
Religion, on the other hand provided a completely different story by revealing teens who were religious waited until the average age of 21 to have intercourse, compared to 17 for those who were not religious.
Having personally been brought up with …read more