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Abstinence pledge programs take a variety of stances on the role of religion in the pledge: some use religion to motivate the pledge, putting Biblical quotes on the cards, while others use statistics and arguments to motivate the pledge. Advocacy of virginity pledges is often coupled with support for abstinence-only sex education in public schools.
Girls who signed the pledge were called "Willards," after Frances Willard of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Northern boys were called "Lincolns" and southern boys became "Lees." By 1925, over five million children had signed the total abstinence pledge cards.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Centennial Fountain in Fairmount Park was dedicated on 4 July 1876, following a parade of more than 5,000 and a Mass at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. [ 1 ] Catholic involvement in the temperance movement has been very strong since at least the nineteenth century, with a number of specifically Catholic ...
Chastity clubs in the United States emerged in the 1990s for adolescents (primarily girls) in elementary through high school. The rise of these clubs occurred alongside the rise of "purity culture" in the U.S. that promoted sexual chastity before marriage, including purity balls, sexual purity organizations, and government-funded abstinence-only sex education. [1]
Within ten years, there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,250,000 members who had taken the pledge. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The society benefited from, and contributed to, a reform sentiment in much of the country promoting the abolition of slavery , expanding women's rights , temperance , and the improvement of society.
Eliza Clontz has run abstinence-based treatment programs for opiate addiction in Kentucky and worked as a counselor in the state’s private and public sectors. She said the prevalence of the abstinence model for drug treatment parallels the faith-based approach to sex education.
Chicago businessman Pete Kadens appeared Sunday on 60 Minutes, where he spoke about his charity, Hope Chicago, which will cover the cost of in-state college tuition for thousands of ...
Father Mathew spent two and a half years in the U.S., traveled 37,000 miles, visited 25 states, administered the temperance pledge in over 300 cities and towns to an estimated more than 500,000 people. The Knights of Father Mathew organization in the U.S. was established in St. Louis, Missouri, on 26 April, 1872.