Teenage Casualities of Casual Sex

Just a few facts that both parents and teens need to know excerpted from this article:

• This year, 8 to 10 million teens will contract an STD.

• Nearly one out of four sexually active teens is living with a sexually transmitted disease at this moment.


• Nearly 50% of African-American teenagers have genital herpes.

• Although teenagers make up just 10% of the population, they acquire 25% of all STDs.


• Herpes (specifically, herpes simplex virus type 2) has skyrocketed 500% in the past 20 years among white teenagers.

• One in five children over the age of 12 tests positive for herpes type 2.


• Nearly one out of ten teenage girls has chlamydia, and half of all new chlamydia cases are diagnosed in girls 15 to 19 years old.

• STDs accounted for 87% of all cases reported of the top ten most frequently reported diseases in the United States in 1995.

• This new epidemic is not just cursing those “poor inner city kids.” No, the viruses have solidly taken up residence in the suburbs

Comments

  1. Thanks for that..my teens are well aware of the above though!

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  2. Why are children as young as 12 positive for herpes? My husband told me that the places that don't have sex education have less sexually active teenagers.

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  3. I think it's a combination of PP encouraging children to have sex as well as our sex-crazed society. it's also parents deferring their responsibilties to educate their children in the faith to PP, the schools, and the media.

    Those places that teach abstinence education and have parents actively involved in catechising their children don't seem to have these problems. How many home schooled 12 year olds do you know get pregnant?

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