•Nearly half (46%) of all 15-19-year-olds in the United States have had sex at least once.[1]
•By age 15, only 13% of never-married teens have ever had sex. However, by the time they reach age 19, seven in 10 never-married teens have engaged in sexual intercourse.[1]
•Most young people have sex for the first time at about age 17, but they do not marry until their middle or late 20s. This means that young adults are at risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for nearly a decade.[2]
•Teens are waiting longer to have sex than they did in the past. Some 13% of never-married females and 15% of never-married males aged 15-19 in 2002 had had sex before age 15, compared with 19% and 21%, respectively, in 1995.[1]
•The majority (59%) of sexually experienced teen females had a first sexual partner who was 1-3 years their senior. Only 8% had first partners who were six or more years older.[1]
•More than three-quarters of teen females report that their first sexual experience was with a steady boyfriend, a fiancé, a husband or a cohabiting partner.[1]
The teenage pregnancy rate has dropped to a three decade low, and dropping immensely! The teenage pregnancy rate has dropped down by about forty percent since 1990!
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Which of the following is true of teenage pregnancy and parenthhood
Teenage Pregnancy is wrong especially if the parent is younger than sixteen.
teenage pregnancy is a major contributer to poverty and low education attainment
no
Unprotected sex, lack of sexual education, no access to contraceptives.
There are only disadvantages of the teenage pregnancy. There is not a single advantage of the teenage pregnancy. You cannot advice to continue the teenage pregnancy. She is too immature to become the responsible mother. You have to get the pregnancy terminated in almost all the cases. That inflicts the physical and mental trauma to the teenage girl. She becomes mature by mid twenty, generally.
Isn't teenage pregnancy actually when the girl carries the baby for nine months, and teenage conception just the same as any other conception, when they have sex?
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