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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TEEN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR? A TRUE-FALSE QUIZ By Emily Holcombe, B.A., Kristen Peterson, B.A., and Jennifer Manlove, Ph.D. Link to facts from childtrends.org.

New study: Adolescents who receive comprehensive sex ed are half as likely to become pregnant as adolesents who receive abstinance-only education, or No education at all.

Why do teens start having sex? While the media bombards us with alarming statistics about the number of teenagers having sex, few reports shed light on what might encourage teens to become sexually active in the first place. <Read More>

Teens and Sex “In one of the first surveys of its kind, teenagers as young as 13 reveal how much they know about sex and how much they are doing .” Survey by NBC News and People Magazine conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

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