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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; abstinence</title>
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		<title>Red and Blue Families</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/29/red-and-blue-families/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/29/red-and-blue-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Times Columnist Cheryl Wetzstein interviewed me for this article on the new book Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture. Cheryl ably summarizes the basic premise of the book: 
In blue states, families tend to be well-educated, have high-paying jobs, be tolerant of diversity and be politically liberal. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chastened: a post-feminist experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/chastened-a-post-feminist-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/chastened-a-post-feminist-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure a couple of movies have been made with topics similar to this. The difference here, of course, is this woman&#8217;s plan was not for the sake of comedic effect.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Maybe something is changing for the better out there among Generation Y. A British journalist in her early 30s has written a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen pregnancy: It’s the attitude, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/teen-pregnancy-it%e2%80%99s-the-attitude-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/teen-pregnancy-it%e2%80%99s-the-attitude-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thought of kids having kids is really disturbing to me. I had my first child when I was 25, and I can say, it&#8217;s serious business. I can&#8217;t imagine doing it while trying to go to high school or even college. And who is really going to be raising these children anyhow? My guess is, the grandmothers. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abstinence message &#8211; teachers wrong, student right</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/01/abstinence-message-teachers-wrong-student-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/01/abstinence-message-teachers-wrong-student-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenagers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From One News Now comes this article about a high school student who dared to wear a T-shirt to school that promoted&#8230;.(gasp)&#8230;..abstinence!
A middle-school student in Minnesota has regained his right to wear at school a T-shirt bearing an abstinence message.
Officials at Hastings Middle School had initially prohibited seventh-grader Johnathon Kinney from wearing the T-shirt with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get the Government out of Sex Ed</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/30/get-the-government-out-of-sex-ed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/30/get-the-government-out-of-sex-ed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 04:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fifty Years on the Pill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next up in our series on the Pill: how exaggerating the effectiveness of contraception causes serious problems. Read the statistics I quote in this column. If you don&#8217;t believe the stats I quote, you can go directly to the Alan Guttmacher articles where I first got them. Bottom line: contraception is least effective among women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Fidelity movement spreads in US colleges</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/28/love-and-fidelity-movement-spreads-in-us-colleges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/28/love-and-fidelity-movement-spreads-in-us-colleges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right on! This is right up te same alley as what the Ruth Institute is doing with its It Takes a Family conferences and with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse&#8217;s Smart Sex book.
by Carolyn Moynihan
CNN has run a story on the movement among college students to shun the hook-up culture prevalent on campuses and encourage dating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War on Intimacy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-war-on-intimacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-war-on-intimacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend the book, The War on Intimacy. The subtitle tells the story, &#8220;How Comprehensive Sex Ed Sabotages Committed Relationships and Our Nation&#8217;s Health.&#8221; I met the author, Richard Panzer, Ph.D. at a meeting of the Abstinence Clearing House last year.  He pressed this book into my hands, and I read it on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too much, too soon</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/03/too-much-too-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/03/too-much-too-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenagers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way to break it down. This is what they wanted to do. This is what they did. Thanks a lot. I miss the 50&#8217;s (had I lived during them).
by Joanna Bogle
As possibly one of its last acts as government, British Labour bids to make sex education compulsory.
Sex education. The very words strike a note of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood and children&#8217;s sexual rights</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/24/planned-parenthood-and-childrens-sexual-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/24/planned-parenthood-and-childrens-sexual-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I appreciate the author&#8217;s attitude on how ridiculous this is. Since when is it okay to usurp parental authority over a ten-year-old and teach them the &#8220;pleasures of sex&#8221;? When was sex ever a good thing for any child? Please, let&#8217;s teach children NOT to have any self-control. Let&#8217;s tell them to sneak around their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stunning Hypocrisy from the Princeton Administration</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/06/stunning-hypocrisy-from-the-princeton-administration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/06/stunning-hypocrisy-from-the-princeton-administration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular Ruth Readers know that I have been supportive of the students of the Princeton University Anscombe Society, and their efforts to obtain a center to support abstinence and chastity on campus. Their efforts have been smacked down by the University adminstration, for a variety of extremely lame reasons.  But now, the Christian Union, housed at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maggie weighs in on the abstinence studies&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/06/maggie-weighs-in-on-the-abstinence-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/06/maggie-weighs-in-on-the-abstinence-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maggie Gallagher did her syndicated column on the new abstinence studies. (Regular Ruth readers already know something about this controversy. See our posts here, here,  and here and our podcasts here .)
The release of this new study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine this week is weirdly timely. &#8230;It&#8217;s just the gold standard for intervention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pure cynicism</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/1338/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/1338/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenagers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way to go, PM! Way to voice your opinion even when it&#8217;s so horribly unpopular. . . and when you&#8217;re right.
Carolyn Moynihan
Horrors! The next prime minister of Australia might be a man who advocates virginity for young people.
Here is this week’s shock-horror story from Australia: the country’s next prime minister might be a man who advises his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen pregnancies go up &#8211; who&#8217;s to blame?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/teen-pregnancies-go-up-whos-to-blame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/teen-pregnancies-go-up-whos-to-blame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My money is on the horrible movies and tv shows geered toward teens. Just a preview for an American Pie movie was enough to make me want to retch.
Charlie Butts &#8211; OneNewsNow -
Teen pregnancies were up three percent in 2006, which is the latest reporting period available. Proponents of comprehensive sex education are blaming abstinence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstinence Only program, delays sexual activity</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/01/abstinence-only-program-delays-sexual-activity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/01/abstinence-only-program-delays-sexual-activity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder why we haven&#8217;t heard anything about this study from the University of Pennsylvania Med School? Sixth and seventh grade African American students were randomly sorted into a control group, an abstinence only class, a safer-sex class and a combined abstinence plus safer sex class.
an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr J&#8217;s podcast on Oprah and Bristol</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/01/dr-js-podcast-on-oprah-and-bristol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/01/dr-js-podcast-on-oprah-and-bristol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oprah was dumbfounded by Bristol Palin&#8217;s abstinence pledge.  I analyze both women in this new podcast.  You and I know that if Bristol had said, &#8220;I want to be president of the US,&#8221; Oprah would not have said, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you setting yourself up for failure?&#8221;  But that is exactly what she said when Bristol voiced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah disses Bristol &#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/26/oprah-disses-bristol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/26/oprah-disses-bristol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oprah gives Bristol a &#8220;chance to recant&#8221; her heretical belief system that marriage, sex and childbearing belong together. Don’t you just love how Oprah disses Bristol’s choice for abstinence?!?! If she were “choosing” to abort a baby, Oprah would never allow herself to say, “you know, you may regret that someday.” If Bristol were saying, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teen Pregnancy Rate Up: I wonder why&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/26/teen-pregnancy-rate-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/26/teen-pregnancy-rate-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I note with interest that Reuters interviewed representatives of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research wing of Planned Parenthood. &#8220;Its all the fault of those Big Bad Social Conservatives.&#8221;  Oddly enough, Reuters did not interview anyone from the abstinence education movement. I wonder why? Perhaps they dont&#8217; know where to find Leslee Unruh at the [...]]]></description>
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