The Day of Purity is a project of Liberty Counsel that encourages students to use Valentines Day to “make a public demonstration of their commitment to remain sexually pure, in mind and actions.”
Amber Haskew, the Day of Purity Coordinator, was the guest on Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program today where she explained the many benefits of saving oneself for marriage … like the fact that people who do earn nearly $400,000 over their lifetimes:
This figure comes from a 2005 Heritage Foundation report that didn’t actually provide any data to support this assertion, but simply predicted that students who abstain are also likely to do better in school and therefore have higher lifetime earnings:
Teens who abstain are likely to have greater future orientation, greater impulse control, greater perseverance, greater resistance to peer pressure, and more respect for parental and societal values. These traits are likely to contribute to higher academic achievement. In short, teen virgins are more likely to possess character traits that lead to success in life. Moreover, the practice of abstinence is likely to foster positive character traits that, in turn, will contribute to academic performance … In our society, greater educational attainment leads, on average, to higher lifetime incomes. Because they are more successful in school, teen virgins can expect to have, on average, incomes that will be 16 percent higher than sexually active teens from identical socio-economic backgrounds. This will mean an average increase of $370,000 in income over a lifetime.
