My Response

I totally agree with this article. It's scary to think that so many more teens in the country are getting pregnant then a couple years ago, but I do also think that adults don't give us the credit we deserve. Yeah, we may be stupid sometimes, but not all of us are sex addicts. Sometimes adults need to give us the benefit of the doubt. This article shows that at least HALF of all teens have the common sense to stay a virgin in high school and that abstinence is key. This article was pretty helpful to me.

Notes

-For over 14 years, the countries percentage of teenagers having babies started to decline; but there has been a 3 percent jump in the last year


- Half of the nations teens can get through high school without having sex


- Seventeen magazine did a survey and found that most teens that want to wait to have sex have different reasons including-
-STD's

-Parental views

- religion

-Moral values

-friends that are still virgins

and the #1 cause for not having sex, UNWANTED PREGNANCIES

- So statistics show that teens are actually a little smarter then adults make them out to be