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Chastity
Ring: Teen Abstinence
Attempt
Worn like
a wedding ring, it serves as a reminder to wait until marriage
to have sex. A founder of one of the many abstinence groups that
sell their rings, T-shirts, etc. to kids said "It's a constant
reminder on the young person's hand that they've actually made
a decision about this. They have a lot of information in their
head, but that doesn't stop them in the back seat of a car." He
thinks the ring will stop them.
Does it work?
Columbia University researchers conducted a study with 12,000
teenagers and found that a whopping 88 percent of those who made
a chastity vow did have sex before marriage and were 20 percent
less likely to use a condom than teens who hadn't taken the pledge.
So it seems that education and providing a condom not a ring,
may ultimately be what saves a child from contracting an STD.
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