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 a Southern Baptist grandmother, I can see why religion would pay such a key roll in a teens desire to wait. It wasn’t so much that I “wanted to wait” as it was my overwhelming fear of what would happen if I didn’t.

I’d be interested in knowing what churches the polled teens belong to.

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Religious Teens Have Less Sex

Teens who took the pledge were less likely to use birth control pills or condoms than those making no promise. Essentially, the results show that teens need information on safe sex and pregnancy prevention even if they vow to refrain.

Imagine, teens making a promise and within a year or two – they up and change their mind. Gasp

I think it’s great that teens make such promises – but being a realist I know that kids change their minds from day to day.

What do you think about the whole virginity pledge thing? I think it’s a great idea, but it’s just that – an idea. I’m not sure how to make it actually work, but for crying out loud, kids need to know that it takes more than making a virginity promise to keep them from getting pregnant or from contracting a life altering STD.

Source: Bloomberg

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Newsflash: Virginity Pledges Fail