Teen Sex Stats Essay, Research Paper
Alarming Statistics:
- 1 of 10 women b/w 15-19 years of age get pregnant every year, 83% are unwanted or unplanned
- 50% of unmarried teens who get pregnant do so within six months of their first sexual experience
- approx. 50-60% of adolescent girls and 75% od adolescent boys have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school
- 61% male and 48% female high school students engage in sexual intercourse
- as of 1992, 54% of all high school students are coitally experienced, the majority do not use condoms consistently
- only 40% of girls who leave high school because of pregnany will graduate from high school, only 2% will graduate from college before 29 years old
- a growing number of adolescents are having sexual intercourse before the age of 13
- 40% of all adolescent females will become pregnant before they graduate from high school
- almost 1.1 million teen pregnancies will end in abortion or miscarrige
- of 500,000 births occurring in adolescents girls each year, 31,000 occur in girls under 15
- 3 million 13-19 year old are infected with STDs not including HIV or AIDS
- STD’s infect 10,000 13-21 year olds yearly
- estimated 10-12 million Americans have STDs
- 15-19 year olds accounted for 24% of reported cases of Gonorhea
- incidence of clamydia of infertility is reported to be 5-30% in sexually active ttens
- average age for initiation of sexcual intercourse is now mid-late adolescense
- United States holds the highest rate of teen pregnancy of any delevoped nation