National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents
October 5, 2010
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions About Sex and Abstinence. Project No. 60005 Final Report February 26, 2009; released Aug 8, 2010:
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
Conclusions:
- 70% of U.S. parents support abstinence until marriage
- 60% of U.S. teens support abstinence until marriage
The Obama administration refused to release this study for 18 months after its completion, stonewalling numerous public requests for release.
Syte Reitz grew up in Queens, New York, in a family of Lithuanian immigrants who fled Nazi and Soviet domination during World War II. Her education includes a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and post-doctoral work at Princeton University. Syte left her job as an Assistant Professor at Oakland University, Michigan, to devote herself to raising her children, and ultimately homeschooled them through the end of high school. She is a member of Madison's Cathedral Parish.
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