America’s Purity Programme !

Should be a personal decision without another's influence .How many are influenced by their parents beliefs.? Each country /state has laws at what age alchol can be sold to a person. What goes on behind closed doors is another matter. A parent should not have to make their child abstain, in the form of a document, from anything the child is of an age to know could cause them harm. Bad parenting if it gets to that stage.

Exactly right M0nica

I'd feel happier if, on the grounds that she was given free choice after explanations, she pledged to both parents, and of course boys should be encouraged to do it too! I remember at Sunday School being asked to sign the pledge that I would not drink any alcohol, I certainly was going nowhere near that!

Chucky - I agree. The trouble is that it isn't a fashionable view.

Merlotgran. Surely she has made the decision to sign the contract i.e. she had a choice. What’s creepy about good old fashioned Christian values? The World would be a much better, and healthier, place if more youngsters abstained from sex till married. Less stds, unwanted pregnancies etc.

I note that Louisiana state has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the US. I can only think that this awful "pledge" business will contribute to this. (It's been around for years, I'm sorry to say.)

Extremists in any walk of life are just totally illogical and basically it’s so wrong on so many levels.

Absolutely MOnica! Brilliant!

Hah! Love it, M0nica!

I think this movement is part of the fundamentalist Christian movement.

I think it should be accompanied by a vow from father to daughter that he, himself has never had a non-marital sex and has been totally faithful in marriage. The father should be worthy of his daughter.

I remember reading about this years ago I don’t think it’s anything new
Each to his own but I think it’s going back to Puritan times
None of the fathers business once she’s 18
If you bring your children up to understand about unwanted pregnancies diseases and respect of your own body and respect of others you don’t need to follow their every move you trust them
Anyway why is she pledging to her father where’s the mother ? Doesn’t she have two parents?

I recall seeing a TV documentary about this many years ago. The only part I remember well is when there was a Dads+Daughters ball held to celebrate something or other. Girls all dressed up like for a prom, escorted by and dancing with their tuxedo-ed fathers - very uncomfortable viewing.

Do the boys sign a pledge to their mother?

It's a personal decision and nobody's business but that of the young person him or her self.

Creepy because they sign a pledge to their Father, would be slightly but only just if they signed a pledge to their Parents, I also think that parents who have given their children a lot of guidance & have been open about sex rather than controlling have a better way of steeering their girls towards sensible attitudes & decisions.

I think the pledging abstinence to her father sounds a bit creepy in this day and age. Making the choice for herself would be a different matter.

I think this type of movement has been going on for a while, an attempt to reduce sexual promiscuity by younger people themselves. There is something akin to this in UK I believe. I'm not sure why you think its creepy Bridgeit