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Summary: Nine Million Teens and Young Adults
contract Sexually Transmitted Infections a Year.
By their 18th birthday, six in 10
teenage girls and more than five in 10 teenage boys have had sexual
intercourse.
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Alan Guttmacher
Institute found that approximately 750,000 teen pregnancies every
year, 82%, are unintended and more than one-quarter end in abortion.
Additionally, about nine million new sexually transmitted infections
occur among teens and young adults each year. By their 18th
birthday, six in 10 teenage girls and more than five in 10 teenage
boys have had sexual intercourse. Finally, one-quarter of sexually
experienced teens had not received instruction about abstinence
before the first time they had sex.1
1Facts
on Sex Education in the United States,
Guttmacher
Institute, 2006.
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