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Abstinence and coherence.
Since 1993, about 2.4 million young people have signed a pledge to wait until marriage to engage in sexual intercourse as part of True Love Waits, a church initiative promoting premarital sexual abstinence. For seven years, researchers from Columbia University and Yale University studied 12,000 teenagers who took the pledge. In March 2004, they reported on their findings. Eighty-eight percent of those who pledged reported having sexual intercourse before marriage; just twelve percent kept their promise.¹

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