Stats show that Teens who abstain from Sex do better in School
- Teen sexual abstinence was associated with:
- A 40 percent lower rate of school expulsion
- A 50 percent lower rate of dropping out of high school
- A 70 percent increase in the probability a youth was currently attending or had graduated from college
- A 66 percent increase in college graduation.
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Date: 10/27/2005
Teen Birth Rates Continue to Decrease
According to this newly released report, teen childbearing declined for the 12th consecutive year to a historic low. Birth rates for women age 20 to 24 years old also declined.
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Date: 9/8/2005
Mathematica study says abstinence education works.
Colorado Springs, CO--Abstinence education works. So says the long-awaited Mathematica report "First – Year Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs." On June 14, 2005, the Department of Health and Human Services released the first-year findings of this longitudinal study of abstinence education programs, confirming the benefits of abstinence education in public schools.
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Date: 6/21/2005
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