Bristol Palin is perhaps America’s most famous teen mom. She became a “teen-abstinence ambassador” in 2009 for the Candie’s Foundation, and she appeared in a People magazine cover story in which she confided that a teen mom’s job is hard work.

Sylvia Barack Fishman is a professor of contemporary Jewish life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, which focuses on women in contemporary Judaism. She is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Life and American Culture (SUNY Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s) and The Way Into the Varieties […]

Samuel C. Heilman is a sociologist at the City University of New York in New York City. He is the author of Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy, which argues that the ultra-Orthodox are gaining the upper hand over the Modern Orthodox. He is also co-editor of the annual periodical Contemporary Jewry, […]

A Nov. 13, 2007 Washington Post piece on the former governor of Virginia cutting funding for abstinence education programs.

Steven M. Cohen is a research professor of Jewish social policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a senior consultant to Synagogue 3000. He is one of the authors of the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study and can discuss its findings on independent minyanim and havurot.

A chart from Beliefnet.com, “What do world religions believe about abortion?”

A Sept. 28, 2009 story in The New York Times.

Plugged In Online is the online version of an entertainment review magazine produced by the evangelical Christian organization Focus on the Family.

Lindsey B. Harlan is a professor of religious studies at Connecticut College in New London. She is an expert on Hindu marriage.