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...debate over sex education has long been a heated one. A new study released Dec. 29 found that a popular method of promoting abstinence - pledging to remain a virgin - doesn't appear to be the answer. To reach this conclusion, Janet Rosenbaum, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, analyzed information gathered from nearly 1,000 teenagers, of which approximately 30% took a virginity pledge. Parsing the data, Rosenbaum found that the teenagers who took chastity vows were just as likely to have premarital sex as their peers-and significantly less likely to use protection. TIME...
...overhead - which raises the level of anxiety of many residents. But bringing in state troopers may not be the answer, because being drawn largely from rural, mostly white locales, they are generally unaccustomed to the demands of urban policing. "A military response will invite even more problems," says Dennis Rosenbaum, a criminal justice and psychology professor at Loyola University here...
...JANET E. ROSENBAUM...
...made some of these points at a Venice Film Festival panel on foreign films in the U.S. And every one of my colleagues made another point: foreign films may be dying in theaters, but they are surviving, thriving, soaring on DVD. As Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for The Chicago Reader and DVD reviewer for cinema-scope.com, noted, there's a wealth of international cinema out there, including films that never play in American theaters or film festivals - and it's all on disc, to be rented or bought, either online or at the more comprehensive video stores...
Surveys designed to measure the effectiveness of virginity pledges may be unreliable because adolescents wrongly report their sexual behavior depending on their social circumstances, according to a study by a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher. According to study author Janet E. Rosenbaum ’98, an HSPH doctoral candidate, 50 percent of adolescents who reported on an initial survey that they had signed a virginity pledge—a promise not to have sex before marriage—denied having signed this pledge on a second survey a year later. 10 percent of those reporting sexual experiences...