Local and National Abstinence Results
Abstinence results from LifeGuard Youth Development, serving Middle and High Schools in Jackson, Cass, Lafayette & Carroll Counties show proven success in helping teens make healthy choices.
Post survey results from over 6,000 students in the 2008-2009 school year prove LifeGuard character based abstinence education works!
Abstinence results from LifeGuard Youth Development, serving Middle and High Schools in Jackson, Cass, Lafayette & Carroll Counties show proven success in helping teens make healthy choices.
Post survey results from over 6,000 students in the 2008-2009 school year prove LifeGuard character based abstinence education works!
- 85% of Middle School students surveyed report they are not currently sexually active.
- 71% of High School students surveyed report they are not currently sexually active.
- 73% of Middle School students surveyed stated that their parents have encouraged them to wait to have sex until marriage.
- 66% of High School students surveyed stated that their parents have encouraged them to wait to have sex until marriage.
National Results from U.S. DHHS have now released full results from a government study on Abstinence Education.
The 196-page report titled, "The National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions about Sex and Abstinence," comes as critical funding for abstinence programs is set to end Sept. 30 — after the U.S. Congress and the administration canceled all abstinence-centered program grants for the FY2010 budget. Up until now, cash-strapped states reportedly have been "on the fence" about applying for federal abstinence-only sex education program funds. States have until Aug. 30 to apply.
The abstinence study, which was completed in February of 2009, and was based on interviews with 1,000 matched adolescent-parent pairs, indicated that:
• Seventy percent of parents agreed with the statement: "It is against your values for your adolescents to have sexual intercourse before marriage."
• Seventy percent of parents agreed with the statement: "Having sexual intercourse is something only married people should do."
• "While the majority of adolescents surveyed oppose pre-marital sex in general and for themselves, on average adolescents expressed less conservative general views about sex and abstinence than their surveyed parents."
Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, was elated by the release of the study, but said, "We are greatly concerned that the sex education policy being implemented by this administration does not reflect the values of what most parents and teens clearly want." For the complete report go to The National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents.
The 196-page report titled, "The National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions about Sex and Abstinence," comes as critical funding for abstinence programs is set to end Sept. 30 — after the U.S. Congress and the administration canceled all abstinence-centered program grants for the FY2010 budget. Up until now, cash-strapped states reportedly have been "on the fence" about applying for federal abstinence-only sex education program funds. States have until Aug. 30 to apply.
The abstinence study, which was completed in February of 2009, and was based on interviews with 1,000 matched adolescent-parent pairs, indicated that:
• Seventy percent of parents agreed with the statement: "It is against your values for your adolescents to have sexual intercourse before marriage."
• Seventy percent of parents agreed with the statement: "Having sexual intercourse is something only married people should do."
• "While the majority of adolescents surveyed oppose pre-marital sex in general and for themselves, on average adolescents expressed less conservative general views about sex and abstinence than their surveyed parents."
Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, was elated by the release of the study, but said, "We are greatly concerned that the sex education policy being implemented by this administration does not reflect the values of what most parents and teens clearly want." For the complete report go to The National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents.
