Nothing like robbing childhood. Our culture has made it a sport.
Surely a kid would never lie about having had sex when they actually haven’t.
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When I was eleven (mid fifties), I didn’t even know what “sex” was. However, I had not been exposed to hour after hour of TV, TV obsessed with sex.
A study of public education in general shows that 1 in 6 sixth graders are old enough to have sex.
Not sure I believe this. When I was in junior high they started handing out questionaires about drug use and sexual activity- we thought it was great fun to lie on them. Parents even thought it was OK to lie on them, thinking it was none of the government’s business what we were up to. I am sure kids haven’t changed that much...just because they checked the box for “having sex” or “having sex 4 or more times a week” doesn’t mean it is true.
Race/Ethnicity 2009 YRBS data indicate that black and Hispanic high school students in Texas are significantly more likely than non-Hispanic white students to have ever had sex (63% vs. 54% vs. 45%, p < .01) and to have had sex with at least one person in the past three months (43% vs. 40% vs. 33%, p < .05). Sexually active black and Hispanic students are also more likely to report not using birth control pills (94% vs. 90% vs. 78%, p < .01), not using birth control pills or Depo-Provera (91% vs. 89% vs. 75%, p < .01), and not using dual protection (condoms and pills or Depo Provera) (97% vs. 96% vs. 90%, p < .05) the last time they had sex, compared to non- Hispanic white students. Black students are more likely than Hispanic and non-Hispanic white students to have had sex for the first time before age 13 (12% vs. 6% vs. 4%, p < .05) and to have had sex with four or more partners (29% vs. 15% vs. 14%, p < .01). Black students are also more likely than non-Hispanic white students to have experienced dating violence in the past year (13% vs. 9%, p < .05). Hispanic students are more likely than black and non- Hispanic white students to have never received education about HIV and AIDS in school (25% vs. 12% vs. 11%, p < .01).
As usual, this isn't about Texas, this is about the large population of minorities in Texas and a basic lack family structure among ethnic minorities.
Seeing how it’s Houston, most of the sixth graders are probably at least seventeen years old.
Are we talking about 11 yo?
Are we talking about 11 yo?
What the heck - you start teaching kids in kindergarten or first grade about sex and what do you expect?
Of course they don’t bother to mention that more than 1 in 10 Texas 6th graders are 17 years old...
Let's take a look at their data.. More than 40% of respondents report using no contraception while having sex, yet the ‘teen pregnancy’ rate is expanded to ...adults, of course. 18-19 year olds who might just be starting a young family. And when you strip that away, you're left with a much less dramatic number (they start with the scare number, 127 out of a thousand MIGHT become pregnant, and then it dips down to the ‘extrapolated’ number, which shows a quarter of that (30 out of a thousand) up to 12th graders, but still missing from that are numbers of unplanned pregnancies.
But let's take it at the word.. 53% of high schoolers are supposedly having sex, 21.2% without any contraception. The number given is 800,000+, so 163,000 are having unprotected sex, and apparently, only 5,000 are getting pregnant.
The ‘current’ explained rate of chance of pregnancy for using no forms of contraception is 85% for a sexually active couple. Yet only 3% of the quoted unprotected sexual relations are resulting in pregnancies (totally ignoring those who are using contraception and failure rates of those methods - after all, the quoted failure rate for condoms is 20%...)
So, let's take it the other way... We know how many pregnancies are occurring for a specific age range (15-17) of 30 per 1000 - The majority of those have to be happening from unprotected sex, and those rates are quoted as being 85 pecent, so the actual sexually active with no protection would be...7,000. If you divide that by the 42% quoted as being unprotected, you arrive at roughly 17,000 sexually active students.
So, the crisis is either a) extraordinarily low fertility rates for America's youth, or b) students blatantly lying on their surveys. And what's worse is the 1 in ten number indicated that says that the students were raped (forced) into a sexual experience. Who knew that there were so many young rapists out there - why the jails and newspapers must be filled with dozens of stories a day about it..
How do they define “sex?” People mean different things when they say that.