Originally posted by selfobliged:
Sex, Teen Pregnancy, STDs, HIV/AIDS
these r statistics in the US.
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Teen Pregnancy
The teen birth rate has declined slowly but steadily from 1991 to
2001 with an overall decline of 26 percent for those aged 15 to
19.
Nearly four in 10 young women become pregnant at least once before
they reach the age of 20-nearly one million a year Eight in ten of
these pregnancies are unintended and 79 percent are to unmarried
teens.
One of every 3 girls has had sex by age 16, 2 out of 3 by age 18.
Two of 3 boys have had sex by age 18.
Fewer than half of high school students have had sex.
Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school, (only
one-third receive a high school diploma) and more likely to end up
on welfare (nearly 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on
welfare).
The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and
births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs
the United States at least $7 billion annually.
A majority of both girls and boys who are sexually active wish they
had waited. Eight in ten girls and six in ten boys say they wish
they had waited until they were older to have sex.
The younger a teenaged girl is when she has sex for the first time,
the more likely she is to have had unwanted or non-voluntary
sex.[b] Close to four in ten girls who had
first intercourse at 13 or 14 report it was either non-voluntary or
unwanted.
whs.wsd.wednet.edu/Faculty/Lynch/sadd/statistics.html[/b]
