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Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
The abstinence programs through the church (True Love Waits, for example) are, in my opinion, even less effective than school abstinence programs. They want you to sign these cards when you're 12 or 13 years old. Now some people may start having sex then, but I know at 13, I WAS planning to wait until marriage. Things change. A promise that you made when you were 13 holds very little concern to a 17 year old. Plus there's very little reinforcement of the concept of abstinence other than the same TLW program year after year, once a year.
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Good grief, half the boys in my class still thought girls were yucky when they were 13. They would have probably been like "whoo hoo! sign me up!"
Seriously, I think these types of programs only hasten too-early marriage. The kids get married early so they can have sex, pop out a couple babies, and then wake up one day and realize they've missed being young. By then there are children's lives that will be thrown into disarray if the parents decide to separate or divorce.