A small percentage of American women reported becoming pregnant as virgins.
Amy Herring, a professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues (2013) identified 45 women who reported becoming pregnant without sexual intercourse. What did they learn about these extraordinarily women?
Of course, it's Christmas time and there are nativities everywhere. And children still sing about "'round yon virgin," though I doubt many pause to contemplate the meaning of that phrase. In any event, it was perhaps inevitable that a scientist would look at contemporary virgin pregnancies.
The study was clearly large in scale with 7870 American youth as a part of a longitudinal study. The most recent assessment of the women who enrolled in 1995 is the focus of the current analysis. It turns out that 45 women reported becoming pregnant as a virgin without using assistive technology.
Religion was important to the women who reported virginity but was not linked to virgin pregnancy. Those who reported a virgin pregnancy were more likely to have signed a chastity pledge (30.5%) compared to the nonvirgins who reported pregnancies (15%) or other virgins (21.2%).
Most of the virgins reporting a pregnancy were knowledgeable about condom use and the withdrawal method of birth control. Some parents of virgins who were pregnant reported inadequate knowledge about sex/birth control (27% agree/ strongly agree). See the study for more details.
More virgins gave birth to boys (59.8%). Also, virgins were younger (19.3 years) when their babies were born compared to nonvirgins (21.7 years).
The authors discussed possible limitations of their study.
For more detail, see BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102
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Amy Herring, a professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues (2013) identified 45 women who reported becoming pregnant without sexual intercourse. What did they learn about these extraordinarily women?
Of course, it's Christmas time and there are nativities everywhere. And children still sing about "'round yon virgin," though I doubt many pause to contemplate the meaning of that phrase. In any event, it was perhaps inevitable that a scientist would look at contemporary virgin pregnancies.
The study was clearly large in scale with 7870 American youth as a part of a longitudinal study. The most recent assessment of the women who enrolled in 1995 is the focus of the current analysis. It turns out that 45 women reported becoming pregnant as a virgin without using assistive technology.
Religion was important to the women who reported virginity but was not linked to virgin pregnancy. Those who reported a virgin pregnancy were more likely to have signed a chastity pledge (30.5%) compared to the nonvirgins who reported pregnancies (15%) or other virgins (21.2%).
Most of the virgins reporting a pregnancy were knowledgeable about condom use and the withdrawal method of birth control. Some parents of virgins who were pregnant reported inadequate knowledge about sex/birth control (27% agree/ strongly agree). See the study for more details.
More virgins gave birth to boys (59.8%). Also, virgins were younger (19.3 years) when their babies were born compared to nonvirgins (21.7 years).
The authors discussed possible limitations of their study.
For more detail, see BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102
Ad. For more about sexuality, morality, and Christian Cultures, buy A House Divided on AMAZON or other booksellers worldwide.
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