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Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievement


  Author: Robert Rector, Kirk A. Johnson
Publisher: The Heritage Foundation
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Document Date:                  August 2005
Category: Sexuality > Sexual Initiation Age
Related Categories:
Adolescence/Youth > High School
Education > Academic Performance/Achievement
Education > Educational Attainment
 

This paper suggests that teenage sexual abstinence is linked to academic achievement.  According to this study, teens who abstain from sex during their high school years are less likely to be expelled from school, less likely to drop out of school and more likely to graduate from college.

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