The percentage of teens in the United States that are sexually active has continued a 30 year decline, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
The declining rate of sexually active teens continues a trend that started in 1988, and parallels declines in both teen birth and pregnancy rates seen in the country since then, according to the CDC.
From 2015 through 2017, 42 percent of never-married female teenagers and 38 percent of never-married male teenagers reported having had sexual intercourse, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics noted. Both of these numbers dropped significantly from 2002, when they were each 46 percent.
42% and 38%.
Downward trend: good!
Still too high though...... so many teens are having their hearts broken and lives changed forever.
If only they knew their true worth. And valued it.
More from the report:
Among all females between 15 and 24 years of age included in the analysis, which was based on participants in the National Survey of Family Growth, 21 percent said they had had sexual intercourse by age 15. By age 17, this figure increased to 53 percent, while it was 79 percent by age 20.
Among all males between 15 and 24 years of age, 20 percent indicated that they had had sexual intercourse by age 15. As with their female peers, by age 17, this increased to 48 percent and again to 77 percent by age 20.
Look at that..... in every age category, girls are a higher percentage than guys.
What does this mean? How do we interpret it?
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt