by Playfuls Staff |
5th May 2006
According to a new analysis released by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, as much as one third (about 31 percent) of the teen girls aged 15-19 who had sexual intercourse at least once have been pregnant, while more than one in eight (13 percent) of such teen boys caused a pregnancy. [more]
When examined by race/ethnicity, over half (52 percent) of sexually experienced Hispanic teen girls, 40 percent of sexually experienced non-Hispanic black teen girls, and 23 percent of sexually experienced non-Hispanic white teen girls report having been pregnant.
Teen girls who first have sex before age 15 are significantly more likely (46 percent) to have been pregnant than teens who first have sex at age 15 or older (25 percent). Similarly, more than one in five teen boys (22 percent) who first have sex before age 15 have been involved in a pregnancy compared to 9 percent who first have sex at age 15 or older.
More than one in three sexually experienced teens girls (37 percent) who have had three or more sexual partners have been pregnant compared to one in four sexually experienced girls (25 percent) who have had one or two sexual partners. Almost one in five sexually experienced teen boys (18 percent) who have had three or more sexual partners have been involved in a pregnancy compared to 9 percent of sexually experienced teen boys with two or fewer partners.
Not surprisingly, teens who used contraception the first time they had sex are less likely to report being involved in a pregnancy than those who did not.
More information is available at
http://www.teenpregnancy.org.
