Based on a premise similar to the True Love Waits movement, a new wave of events has emerged known as Father/Daughter Purity Balls. Earlier this year Glamour magazine included an article outlining one reporter's experiences attending one of these events in Colorado Springs.

I encourage you to read the article in its entirety, but if time is an issue, let me share the writer's summation paragraph:

"I deeply wish that the lovely things I have seen tonight—the delighted young women, the caring, doting dads—might evolve into father-daughter events not tied to exhorting a promise from a girl that may hang over her head as she struggles to become a woman. When Lauren Wilson hit adolescence, her father gave her a purity ring and a charm necklace with a tiny lock and key. Randy Wilson took the key, which he will hand over to her husband on their wedding day. The image of a locked area behind which a girl stores all of her messy desires until one day a man comes along with the key haunts me. By the end of the ball, as I watch fathers carrying out sleepy little girls with drooping tiaras and enveloping older girls with wraps, I want to take every one of those girls aside and whisper to them the real secret of womanhood: The key to any treasure you’ve got is held by one person—you."

Hmm...the last time I checked, Scripture said, "You are not your own." And since we are not our own, we are supposed to honor God with our body. I didn't atttend this ball, but I hope that was the truth that was shared. We were bought with a price, not by our earthly father but by our Heavenly One, and that is the purity lesson we should be teaching girls today.

Talkback Questions:
What do you think about this concept of Father/Daughter Purity Balls?
How effective do you think these events are at helping girls maintain their purity?