magazine recently examined the increasing number and debate surrounding "Father-Daughter Purity Balls," which are held to promote abstinence until marriage. The article has been posted online and will be in the magazine's July 28 issue. According to TIME, purity balls have become a "proxy in the wider war over means and ends" for issues, including abstinence-only education funding and access to contraception for teenagers. The Abstinence Clearinghouse estimates that there were more than 4,000 purity events in the U.S. last year, with programs aimed at boys also increasing. Randy Wilson -- national director of church ministries for the Family Research Council and co-inventor of the purity ball in Colorado Springs, Colo. -- said the purity ball movement was not so much about the daughters but the fathers whom he believes did...
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