Thursday, November 17, 2011

Faith is No. 1 reason for teens' abstinence

Baptist Press - Faith is No. 1 reason for teens' abstinence - News with a Christian Perspective: The most frequent reason teenagers give for abstaining from sex is that the behavior is against their religion or morals, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Oct. 12. Teenagers were least likely to choose "don't want to get a sexually transmitted disease" as the reason for not having had sex.

"Adults have to decide whether teenagers are like barnyard animals, incapable of moral decision-making and at the mercy of primal urges," Richard Ross, cofounder of the True Love Waits abstinence movement, said. "Adults who tend to believe that assume all we can do is try to prevent some of the consequences of their amoral behavior."

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