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Facts
- Over 750,000 teens become pregnant each year.1
- Over 80 girls 19 and under every hour of the day find out they are pregnant.2
- 82% of teen pregnancies are unplanned.2
- 50% of teen moms drop out of high school.3
- 1 in 4 sexually active teens are already infected with an STD3
- Six in ten teens who have had sex say they wish they would have waited.1
- The U.S. has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the industrialized world.1
- Though 15-24-year-olds represent only one-quarter of the sexually active population, they account for nearly half of the 20 million new cases of STIs each year. 2
- 10,000 teens are infected by STIs per day, one every eight seconds!2
- Some young people, including those who have had abstinence education, consider oral and anal sex to be abstinent behaviors and do not realize these behaviors present risks of STI transmission.3
- Those who abstain from sex until marriage significantly add to their chance for avoiding problems and finding happiness.4