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"A Christian abstinence program has launched an initiative designed to
help communities find strategies for reclaiming and proclaiming the value of
sexual purity among young people.
True Love Waits (TLW) is a youth-based international campaign that uses
positive peer pressure to encourage teenagers to commit to remain sexually
pure until marriage. And now, through its new "Takes the Town" initiative,
TLW is encouraging cities around the United States to engage in a unified,
community-wide approach to promoting abstinence.
Jimmy Hester, a co-founder of TLW, says the new initiative will encourage
more of America's communities to embrace abstinence education in a
comprehensive way. "And when I say community," he explains, "I'm talking
about the different parts of the community, such as businesses, health
organizations, education organizations or schools; also media, and maybe
even so local government."
...TLW hopes to involve 50 communities during the first year of its "Takes
the Town" initiative. The movement's co-founder says the abstinence
education initiative will not only challenge those cities and towns, but
will also encourage those students who have actively participated in True
Love Waits programs and emphases in recent years."
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/152005b.asp
"Factory 79 Inc., manufacturers of Genesis Fine Christian Jewelry, was
founded in April 1994, in San Diego, California.
Designing, creating, and manufacturing inspirational jewelry is our only
focus. Most of our designs are original and handcrafted, using 14kt gold or
sterling silver.
We are proud to be a licensed (by Lifeway Christian Resources)
manufacturer of "True Love Waits" jewelry. With each piece of "True Love
Waits" jewelry we send a commitment card to be filled out, signed, and dated
by you!
For more information about the "True Love Waits" program, please visit
http://www.truelovewaits.com/
Our desire is that this jewelry will be an outward sign of God's presence
in your life.
We believe that God's word does touch people today, and that Christ does
transform lives. "
http://www.factory79.com/aboutus.php
"Many abstinence programs have embraced the concept of virginity pledges,
encouraging children as young as 9 to promise to wait until marriage to have
sex.
So how reliable are reports of sexual activity by teenagers who took such
a pledge?
Not very, according to a study by Harvard doctoral candidate Janet
Rosenbaum published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public
Health. Rosenbaum found that 53 percent of adolescents in a large, federally
funded study who said they made a virginity pledge denied doing so a year
later, often after they had become sexually active.
At the same time, 10 percent of teenagers who said they had had
intercourse and then made a pledge or became born-again Christians
subsequently said they were virgins.
Rosenbaum's study is based on an analysis of 1995 and 1996 data from the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which involved more than
13,000 teenagers in grades 7 to 12. At the time virginity pledge programs,
many of them sponsored by evangelical Christian groups, were proliferating
as a way to combat teenage sex, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and
perceived moral decay.
Rosenbaum said her study shows that efforts to evaluate such programs'
effectiveness is complicated by teenagers' reports of behavior that may be
influenced by religious or social factors. "Whatever environment you're in,
you're more likely to conform," Rosenbaum said."-Sandra G. Boodman, The
Washington Post, May 16, 2006
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