Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers

Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-320

  Regnerus, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstinence pledges; Adolescents; Morality; Peer groups; Pregnancy; Religion; Sex education; Sexual values; Stds; Teenage sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250771550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320947.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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