William Atkins
Monday, 29 December 2008 21:18
Science -
Health
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The Rosenbaum study is important for reaching conclusions on teenage sexual habits because it is considered the first research study that used much more effective and controlled methods to account for extraneous factors that can skew the validity of the results.
The results of the study will appear in the January 2009 issue of the journal
Pediatrics, a publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The Rosenbaum study is part of a large U.S. government study called the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Her team’s conclusions found that over 50% of U.S. teenagers become sexually active before marriage.
The analysis found that it does not matter if teens make a pledge of virginity. The rate is still one out of two having sex, whether they take the sex-less pledge or not.
As stated before, however, the teens pledging to stay away from sex actually participated in sexual activities is less safe manners than other teenagers that did not take an abstinence pledge.
In fact, the pledged teens were 10% more likely not to use condoms (to guard against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases) and 6% more lively to not use any form of birth control (to guard against pregnancy) than the non-pledged youth.
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