Les Jones

News > Report on Abstinence Pledges

Clayton Cramer blogs a study that finds that kids who take pledges of abstinence until they're married have about the same rate of STDs as kids who don't take the pledges. The pledge kids start having sex later, but when they do have sex they're less likely to use condoms. So abstinence programs seem to have a positive effect, but without traditional sex ed instruction, they aren't any more effective than traditional sex ed.