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Statistics On Teenage Relationships

Being a teenager is a troubling time. Whilereasons.In the good news department, the
adjusting to all the changes going on both innumber of teen pregnancies occurring in the
your biology and your responsibilities,United States has been declining since the
making the right decisions can be hard whenearly nineties. These decreases are found
it comes to topics such as relationships. Inacross the board, with age, marital status,
this article, we'll offer some statisticsand ethnicity not being a significant factor
regarding teenage relationships so that youin the decrease, representing a uniform drop.
can better understand exactly what's in storeStudies show that this drop in teen pregnancy
for the average teenager who is dating.Whilecan be due to the greater use of
domestic violence is a terrible aspect ofcontraceptives by teens. Lowered rates of
adult relationships, few adults realize thatsexual activity amongst adolescents also are
this problem also occurs in their sons anda factor in the declining rate. However, the
daughters. A study conducted by "Childrenteen pregnancy rate in the United States is
Now" in 1995 saw that a full 89 percent ofstill one of the highest rates in any
teens have been in dating relationships and aindustrialized nation. The use of
whopping 40 percent of all teenagers knowcontraceptives needs to be encouraged by all
someone their age that was beaten or abusedparties, regardless of religion or creed. If
by a boyfriend in a relationship. This is aa teenager has sex unprotected, they run a
serious problem that every parent needs torisk of getting pregnant that is
watch out for to ensure the health and safetyapproximately 90%.One aspect of teenage
of their children. Another study, conductedpregnancy that is frightening is the number
by Silverman, Raj, Mucci and Hathaway in 2001of adult males that are having sexual
showed that young women who were inrelationships with teenage females. In cases
relationships that involved violence werewhere a girl aged 15 to 17 gets pregnant,
more likely to abuse substances, developover 50% of the time, an adult male is the
eating disorders, conduct risky sexualfather. A study conducted in California
behaviors, get pregnant, and even commitshowed that seven out of ten teenage births
suicide. As you can see, domestic violence inwere caused by men aged twenty or above.
teenagers is very worrisome for a host of



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