According to the Christian Post and CitizenLink.com, a study published in the Jan./Feb. 2008 issue of the “American Journal of Health Behavior” will show that programs by the Virginia health department’s Abstinence Education Initiative resulted in a “significant reduction in teen sexual initiation.”

The Institute for Research and Evaluation evaluated the impact of the programs by examining the behavior of seventh-graders from five different Virginia schools. The study concluded that those students receiving abstinence education were about one-half (45.7 percent) as likely to initiate sexual activity as students who did not receive abstinence education.

News of the study broke soon after this week’s announcement that Virginia’s governor had decided to halt funding for abstinence-only education programs.  It also comes on the heels of a nationwide study that stated abstinence-only education is unproven for stopping teen sex.

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