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Tags: SEX education -- Law & legislation; PREMARITAL sex; SEXUAL abstinence
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- Takin' the pledge. // Campus Life;Sep/Oct97, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p7
Presents different pledges from young individuals to abstain from pre-marital sex. Reason of every person for pledging.
- NEWSBRIEF: NEW JERSEY. // Advocate;4/20/93, Issue 627, p24
Reports on the legislative bill which requires New Jersey state-mandated sex education courses to stress sexual abstinence as the only completely reliable means of preventing the transmission of HIV.
- Join the club! Barnhill, Carla // Campus Life;Sep/Oct97, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p42
Focuses on the True Love Waits youth movement's promotion of abstinence from premarital sex in Cookeville High School, Tennessee. Main objectives of the movement; Members' signing of commitment cards; Organizing an evening worship service to tackle the reasons for sex abstinence; Peak period of...
- Ironically, a drop in teen sex comes at a time when many adults have given up trying to preach abstinence. Chavez, Linda // Enterprise/Salt Lake City;02/15/99, Vol. 28 Issue 34, p14
Comments that teen sex has dropped in the United States at a time when, ironically, many adults have give up preaching abstinence. Role of the family in the change of sex habits, according to a report by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy; Futility of blaming the media for the teen...
- Living proof. Cockroft, Martin // Campus Life;Mar/Apr99, Vol. 57 Issue 8, p35
Relates how Christian recording artist Clay Crosse and his wife Renna committed to sexual purity early in their high school dating relationship. Avoidance of one-on-one dating until Renna was 16; Spending most of their time together with youth group friends; Role models that each looked up to...
- ABSTINENCE. Lange, Donna; McDonnell, Mary Ann // Taking Responsibility: A Teen's Guide to Contraception & Pregnan;2004, p22
This article focuses on sexual abstinence. For some people, babies arrive before marriage and often before love. By making a lifestyle choice of abstinence, a person can grow relationships before making babies. Abstaining from sex means not having sex at all for a period of time. Some people...
- NEGOTIATING SEXUAL PERMISSIVENESS IN A CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SETTING. Chang, Jui-Shan // International Journal of Sociology of the Family;Spring96, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p13
This paper explores the perceptions, meanings, attitudes and interpretations of the jeng-tsao-guann (the value of chastity and virginity) among never married young people in Taipei city by using qualitative data from six focus group interviews which were conducted in June and July of 1994. The...
- Va. Stops Abstinence-Only Funding. A. P. // Education Week;11/28/2007, Vol. 27 Issue 13, p5
The article focuses on sex education program funding in the state of Virginia. It explains that the state's governor, Timothy M. Kaine, has stopped out of state funding for abstinence-only education programs. It also notes that 13 other states in the U.S. have stopped supporting abstinence-only...
- How far is too far? Lutes, Chris // Campus Life;Mar/Apr99, Vol. 57 Issue 8, p32
Focuses on Christian teenagers' attitudes toward sexuality and sexual purity. Treatment of sexual purity as more than just sexual abstinence and virginity; Today's Youth Getting Real's efforts to educate students that any kind of sexual activity affects a person emotionally, physically, and...
