Over ninety percent of parents want teens to abstain from sexual activity until they have at least finished high school. Teens who abstain from sexual activity have substantially improved life outcomes. For example, teens who are abstinent in high school are almost twice as likely to attend and graduate from college when compared sexually active teens from identical social backgrounds.
Young people today are awash in a popular culture promoting promiscuity and casual sex. Abstinence education programs are one of the few alternative voices. Abstinence education programs are effective in reducing sexual activity against enormous pop culture pressures.
Alternative comprehensive sex education programs disparage abstinence and teach that casual sex among teenagers is acceptable and desirable.
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