Why are so many girls sexually active if they are three times more likely to be depressed and attempt suicide than sexually inactive girls?

Answer 1

== == * Where did you hear that, in your abstinence-only sex ed class? whoever told you that information, probably either made it up or distorted it in some way or isn't accounting for other factors. don't believe it without having more information. having sex will not make you depressed and suicidal, this is Propaganda. * Oh how I wish there was an easy answer for this question. Unfortunately no easy answer exists. There are many reasons that teenage girls become sexually active. Peer pressure. Curiosity. Intimidation. And the list go on and on. Through education, they can stop. It needs to start at home and continue within circles of friends and school. It needs to start with the changing of the moral code. Sounds like and insurmountable task doesn't? If you try and I try, and we get our friends to try, maybe we can start the ball rolling. Ready, set, GO. * The truth behind this from my opinion is that once you lose your virginity- it's not something you can simply ask for afterwards. Think of it this way, you're having sexual relations, thinking your in love, but then one day/evening your partner leaves you. You gave away something you cannot have back. I'm not sure how much sense that makes, but be reminded that this is only my opinion. Now am I saying one should never ever have sex? No, not at all, but wait until you and your partner are ready for it. * I think you may have this backwards. Your question implies that, for teenage girls, having sex leads to depression and suicidal tendencies. There probably is a correlation between early sexual activity and depression and suicide, but it seems much more likely that girls have sex before they are ready as a way of trying to escape or deal with their depressed feelings. If, for example, one is feeling unloved or worthless (a symptom of depression), having sex is one way to try to make that feeling go away. This is NOT to say that all teenage girls who have sex are troubled, but that the percentage who are depressed or suicidal may be having sex for the wrong reasons. Remember, if the above statistics are accurate, 75% of sexually active teenage girls are not depressed. answer second from top does not say how many of those teens that are depressed have a family history of depression that is just stupid. I think girls that are inactive how a history of being more depressed and you don't know how there life is at the time of when they try or actually succeed