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Virginity pledges may work for some adolescents.

Publication: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Virginity pledges may work for some adolescents.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

Article Excerpt
The March 2009 issue includes a digest ["Virginity' Pledgers Are Just as Likely as Matched Nonpledgers to Report Premarital Intercourse," 2009, 41(1):63] of an article by Janet Rosenbaum that appeared in the January, 2009 issue of Pediatrics. (1) Her study used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to compare the sexual behavior, contraceptive use and STD diagnoses of adolescents who reported taking a virginity pledge with those of a matched sample of nonpledgers. Similar proportions of pledgers and nonpledgers were found to have initiated sexual intercourse by the follow-up; rates of STD diagnoses were also comparable in the two groups.

Rosenbaum's findings appear to be in direct conflict with those of a similar study that I led at the RAND Corporation, which was published in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. (2) Like Rosenbaum, we used propensity score modeling to compare the rate of sexual initiation among adolescents who had taken a virginity pledge with that among a closely matched sample of nonpledgers....

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