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- Title
Some Teenagers Just Say No.
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
The article reports on the decline in the incidence of risky sexual behavior among high school students in the United States between 1991 and 1997 according to data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The prevalence of risky sexual behavior declined among high school students between 1991 and 1997, but not all subgroups registered improvements, according to an analysis of data from the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey. In all, 48% of respondents in 1997 had ever had sex, compared with 54% six years earlier. Significant declines occurred among black students (from 81% to 73%), white students (from 50% to 44%) and male students (from 57% to 49%), but not among females and Hispanics. Students surveyed in 1997 were less likely to say they had had four or more sex partners (16%) than were respondents in 1991 (19%); this change occurred entirely among males (18% in 1997 vs. 23% in 1991).
- Subjects
UNITED States; TEENAGERS; SEX education; SAFE sex; CHILDREN'S sexual behavior; SEXUAL health; HIGH school students
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, Vol 30, Issue 6, p255
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article