Bush policies reverse Clinton-era decline in teen sex rate (What is the age of consent in MY state?)

[Ian David]

Teen Sex Rates Stop Falling, Data Show

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page A01

The long decline in sexual activity among U.S. teenagers, hailed as one of the nation's most important social and public health successes, appears to have stalled.

After decreasing steadily and significantly for more than a decade, the percentage of teenagers having intercourse began to plateau in 2001 and has failed to budge since then, despite the intensified focus in recent years on encouraging sexual abstinence, according to new analyses of data from a large federal survey.

The halt in the downward trend coincided with an increase in federal spending on programs focused exclusively on encouraging sexual abstinence until marriage, several experts noted. Congress is currently debating funding for such efforts, which receive about $175 million a year in federal money and have come under fire from some quarters for being ineffective.

The leveling off in teen sexual activity is worrying experts and advocates across the ideological spectrum. The fall of such activity has been one of the key forces behind a historic drop in teen pregnancy rates and has bolstered efforts to protect teenagers from sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101275.html?nav=rss_nation/science


"I love you. And I am very concerned about your vagina."


Daddy says that someday I'll get 'The Curse' that makes my vagina bleed. That makes me scared, because it might wake-up the monster that lives under my bed. The one that used to touch me at night when Daddy was still drinking.

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[TlalocW]

1. And here's my own personal hypothesis why

Because the 90s were so much better for everyone economically. There were so many jobs that needed to be filled that unemployment among teenagers probably went down as there weren't college graduates having to work at McDonalds like during the Reagan/Bush years. So there was less time for kids to fool around. The tax revenue (especially when Clinton raised taxes on the richest of the rich) helped create job programs like Midnight Basketball (where if you wanted to participate, you took classes in resume writing and job interview taking), and because of programs like this and overall good news about the economy, I think a lot of kids, who normally wouldn't have thought about going to college because of their family's financial situation, decided they had a shot and decided that it wasn't worth it to blow their future by having sex and getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant. Plus they could afford to buy condoms.

TlalocW

[cobalt1999]

2. So teen boys are happy with this administration...

until they get shipped off to war that is.

[MetaTrope]

3. Look, the kids know they have to get some fun before they get drafted to Iran

I'm just saying.