![]() ![]() 2008 Rosenbaum 2009) or religious adolescents ( Uecker et al. Religious adolescents may preserve “technical virginity” ( Gagnon and Simon 1987 Reiss 1960) by having oral sex instead of vaginal sex ( Bearman and Brückner 2005), but other research find no evidence for substitution among virginity pledgers ( Uecker et al. 2006, 2008) delay sex, but it is unknown how many delay sex until marriage. 2003 Santelli and Peter 1992), and come from religious families ( Manlove et al. 2003) and attend church or religious youth group ( Nonnemaker et al. 2003 Meier 2003 Haglund and Fehring 2009), who often pray ( Laflin et al. 2000 Hardy and Raffaelli 2003 Rostosky et al. Despite this substantial federal and state policy commitment to abstinence until marriage, it is unknown whether even religiously conservative, church-going young adults delay sex until marriage.Īmerican adolescents who consider themselves highly religious ( Lammers et al. ![]() Abstinence-only until marriage is also the basis for most states’ sex-education policies ( Guttmacher 2010). The Obama health reform law passed in March 2010 included $250 million over 5 years for abstinence-only sex-education programs. Federal sex education policy has promoted abstinence until marriage as the expected standard for children ( GAO 2006) since 1996, with just a one-year break at the beginning of the Obama administration. Conservative religious groups present abstinence until marriage as a religious ideal. ![]()
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