Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Abortion - was Missouri Young Republicans?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Jennifer Dozar wrote:

> I'm taking his sideo n this one. I knew of many girls my frehsman year 
> and dropped out because they got pregnant. I saw one of them after my 
> second year of college and she had 3 kids, didn't finish high school, 
> and struggling to find a decent job.  Virgins were out there, but i 
> think they were outnumbered by the non-virgins.


http://www.soundvision.com/Info/teens/stat.asp

-Nationally, one-quarter of 15 year old females and less than 30% of 15 
year old males have had sex, compared with 66% of 18 year old females, and 
68% of 18 year old males who have had sexual intercourse. (A Statistical 
Portrait of Adolescent Sex, Contraception, and Childbearing, National 
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC, 1998).


That may not be the best source, but some good sources don't break it down 
by age.  This one is just "high school students":

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5138a2.htm

Here's more:

http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/fb_teen_sex.html

Most very young teens have not had intercourse: 8 in 10 girls and 7 in 10 
boys are sexually inexperienced at age 15.


Best,

Mike
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