I've never thought highly of abstinence pledges. I mean, a pledge requires a person to put rational thought over emotion which is not something teenagers are k

I've never thought highly of abstinence pledges. I mean, a pledge requires a person to put rational thought over emotion which is not something teenagers are known to be good at. How many kids "pledge" not to try drugs? Or "pledge" to always do their chores? Or "pledge" to be home at a certain hour? All these are examples of weaker temptations than sex and teenagers still break them. That said, I'm weary of these results being this researcher clearly has an agenda (she's written about the topic several times now and keeps a related blog). I've found statisticians who go into a survey wanting to draw a specific conclusion tend to draw that conclusion regardless of whether it's true or not. Especially when their sample size is so small.