• Some 47 percent of parents want teens to be taught that "young people should not engage in sexual activity until they are married."
• Another 32 percent of parents want teens to be taught that "young people should not engage in sexual intercourse until they have, at least, finished high school and are in a relationship with someone they feel they would like to marry."
• 79 percent of parents want young people taught that sex should be reserved for marriage or for an adult relationship leading to marriage.
• By 11th or 12th grade, some 91 percent of students have been taught about birth control in school
• 75 percent of parents want both abstinence and contraception taught to teens

Colorado Springs, CO--Not long ago, a minor flare lit the evangelical horizon as Lauren F. Winner, a senior editor for Christianity Today, wrote a tell-all column on “evangelical whores."

The January 2001 issue of the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) published the results of an extensive research project on the effect of the virginity pledge in delaying sexual initiation among teens.