... and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives....

...This chapter focuses on the use of sex in order to sell the abstinence message. From attractive Christian celebrities as spokespersons to the sale of panties printed with chastity slogans, the abstinence movement harnesses the power of sex to make chastity appealing to young people. The positive...

...Millions of young people have pledged abstinence, but that does not mean that they are all virgins. What happens to the happily-ever-after of the fairy tale of abstinence if the prince or princess did not wait for true love? Or, worse, what if the prince or princess never shows up? What...

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...This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using untapped archives, this is the first book...

...This chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book aims to describe in detail how virginity pledge events, such as those in evangelical sexual abstinence campaigns, are persuading young people to wait to have sex and how young people are negotiating their sexuality while...

...This chapter argues that the evangelical abstinence campaigns are unwittingly raising a generation of young people with false expectations about the role of sex in marriage and about the sacrifice and commitment of marriage in general. By tying the abstinence commitment to one's religious...