Issue:

Young people in middle school often do not receive reinforcement for values that encourage waiting until marriage before having sex.

Project:

Produce 15 new video segments and create a new updated manual for the middle school version of Managing Pressures Before Marriage Educational Series for Young Teens.

Result:

Young teens are being given the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to resist pressures to have sex before marriage using a newly updated Managing Pressures Before Marriage Series.

The Managing Pressures Educational Series recognizes that young teens need opportunities to think about and discuss social and peer pressures about sex in a guided way.

Through the Series teens decide on a stopping point and learn skills that enable them to carry out saying “no” to sex in a variety of problem situations commonly faced by teens. Young people are helped to conclude that they should wait to have sex until they are in a committed marital relationship.