Maybe Teens and Tweens Aren't So Morally Lax After All

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Adults are predisposed to see teenagers as immoralists who will take a mile if given an inch. A report released last month by the Girl Scout Research Institute casts doubt on the universal truth of that notion, instead detecting a significant constituency for self-restraint and traditional morality among the teens and tweens surveyed.

Indeed, the polling finds that fidelity to traditional norms has increased rather than decreased during the past couple of decades. For instance, a 1989 version of the survey found 24 percent of 7th-12th graders saying they would wait to have sex until they were married, vs.

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