ATLANTA — A new study from the Centers for Disease Control shows that teens who report abstaining from sex are much healthier than their peers who engage in sexual activity.
The report — “Sexual Identity, Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9–12, United States and Selected Sites” — concluded that students “with no sexual contact have a much lower prevalence of most health-risk behaviors,” according to The Christian Post.
The study, compiled in 2015, showed that teenage virgins are considerably less likely than their peers to smoke daily, use indoor tanning beds, binge drink, smoke marijuana, ride in cars with a drunk driver and get in fights.
“Our children should know there’s very compelling scientific evidence on so many levels showing how saving the precious gift of their sexuality for … marriage is nothing about old-time moralism or unhealthy sexual repression. Just the opposite is true,” wrote Glenn Stanton, director of global family formation studies of Focus on the Family, in The Federalist web magazine. (TAB)
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