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US Teens, Young Adults 'Doing It' Less, Study Says
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA - Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they're doing it less. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence. Or maybe they're just too busy. AP This graphic shows the percentage change in sexual behavior between 2002 and 2006-2008 among people ages 15-24. "It's not even on my radar," said 17-year-old Abbey King of Hinsdale, Ill., a competitive swimmer who starts her ...
Why Aren't US Teens Having Babies So Much Anymore?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsIs abstinence the new normal? The teen pregnancy rate hit a record low in 2009, according to new data just released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate last year fell to 39.1 births per 1,000 teens, a decrease of 6 percent from 2008. What's keeping America's teens childless? Surge Desk takes a look at a few of the competing explanations. No one's having babies at any age American teens could just be emulating their older role models; hardly anyone had babies in 2009. Birth rates also fell for women in their early 20s and for women in their late 20s and early ...
Teen Sex: Lessons From Europe (Again)
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Well, here's something to pop your eyes open in case you can't quite shake that post-election torpor. A county in the U.K. has just authorized pharmacies to distribute birth control pills to girls as young as 13, without parental consent. It's a pilot project in the Isle of Wight, best known as a British tourist destination for its ye olde worlde charm. Under the project, teenagers who approach a pharmacist for the morning-after pill will also be able to get a month's supply of the contraceptive pill without seeing a doctor or informing their parents. After that month is up, girls ...
Study: Teen Sex OK for Report Cards for Kids in Committed Relationships
By Jordan Carr - AOL News(Aug. 16) -- Every so often, a daytime talk show or news article treats us to one of those scare stories about how kids these days are always having sex and are all one shockingly small step away from being pregnant and/or about to die broke and unemployable, all alone under a highway overpass. Now a new study on the topic has come out -- and though its results are mixed, it does pump the brakes a little on the broader "all this sex is destroying our children" hysteria. Titled "Sex and School: Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Education," the study by Bill McCarthy and Eric Grodsky used nine ...
Teen Sex in America: Is No Change Good or Bad?
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyAbstinence-based sex education remained front and center as a tool of public policy through the past decade, with a particular emphasis on convincing unmarried teenagers to forgo having sex. And that makes the results of a survey recently released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention particularly interesting. The report is titled "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2008." It's a follow-up to a series of similar surveys, the last taken in 2002. The focus is on males and females ages ...
Sarah Palin Never Told Bristol About the 'Birds and the Bees'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyAmong the more compelling bits of background information teen mom Bristol Palin reveals about her famous family in the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar is the fact neither of her parents, Todd and Sarah Palin, ever gave her the "sex talk." "It's not like we all sat down and were like, 'Alright, here's the birds and the bees,'" Palin told the magazine. "Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn't doing anything. And it was a shock for us all." Bristol's pregnancy by then-boyfriend Levi Johnston caused a sensation on the presidential campaign trail back in 2008, especially since she was only ...
Kiddie Condoms: The Newest Weapon Against Teen Pregnancy
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyApparently, sometimes size really does matter. A Swiss company has created an extra-small condom aimed at 12-to-14-year-old boys. It's called -- wait for it -- the Hotshot. ...
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