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According to The Huffington Post on Thursday, while teenage pregnancies in African American and Latin American communities have doubled compared to Caucasian communities, research has found that a high number of teachers has helped reduce the number of teenage pregnancies. According to a new study from the University of Georgia, published in the Journal of…
Research has been done to find that Free Contraception is associated with the number of sexual partners and the frequency of sexual intercourse over time. Investigators at Washington University in St. Louis The St. Louis School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri) published their findings online March 5 in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. Researchers note…
We Americans used to be mocked for our puritanical—morally strict—ways, but a cultural shift has changed all that. Ours is now a sexually charged society, thanks in large measure to the entertainment industry. Wrote Anne Oldenburg and Arienne Thompson in the USA Today article, “Selling Sex: Has Showbiz Pressure Gone Too Far?”: “Rhianna is channeling…
May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, and the number of births to teens ages 15 to 19 years old is down to 29.4 live births per 1,000 population according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC. For reference, in 2009 the rate was 39.1 births per 1,000 teens, and even…
Middle school students who send or receive “sexts” are more likely to be sexually active than those who don’t send sexually explicit messages and photos, according to new research. The study, published in the June 30 online Pediatrics, found that middle schoolers who reported receiving sexts were six times more likely to report being sexually…
Despite the popularity of MTV’s hit shows ‘Popularity 16 and Pregnancy’, teen birth rates are the lowest in the United States at all times. Of the approximately 4 million babies born in the United States in 2010 (full year of available data), less than 375,000 are mothers under the age of 20. According to a…