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Exactly why we are doing a full scale evaluation. The preliminary results were enough to merit this study.

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Maybe I should restate that, they didn't know HOW to make abstinence a realistic option for themselves. You can't just tell them to wait and then not give them the skills they need to wait.

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My statistic was on a program of ours. In a 12 month follow up of girls who completed The Quinceanera Program, 94% of them remained sexually abstinent. This is a 24 hour parent-teen program. It also increased parent-child communication about sex by 29%. True abstinence education is a program that is more than "don't have sex until you are married." It incorporates parents, role models, refusal skills, setting boundaries, character education and much more. We are currently conducting a 5 year, federally funded research project with the University of Northern Colorado and I anticipate the same kind of postitive results.
I would like to hold the "abstinence-based" community to the same standards. What are their results in keeping teens abstinent? And I do want to re-iterate that I am not opposed to contraceptive information in schools. I am opposed to the careless manner in which it is presented, including a very WEAK abstinence component.

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My name is Gina Harris and I am the Executive Director of FRIENDS FIRST. I was just interviewed on the show. Because of time limitations, I was not able to comment on how sexually active teens receive our message. In the 15 years that FRIENDS FIRST has existed, we have never had one sexually active teen say they did not like our message. If anything, we always get sexually active teens tell us thank you and that they did not know that abstinence was an option, even after they have had "comprehensive sex ed." Even our pre and post tests reveal that there is more movement towards abstinence among sexually active teens.

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