Seventh Grade Sex in Knox County: Living Up to National Standards!

Posted by The Observer , Jul 31,2001,09:19

Finally, something at which our schools are outperforming national standards. From today's News-Sentinel:

* Of sexually active students, the majority of both males and females used condoms during their last sexual encounter. The percentage who used condoms, however, declined with age: more than 75 percent of active seventh-graders said they used condoms, but only 68.6 percent of 11th-grade boys and 53.8 percent of 11th-grade girls used them.

* More than 70 percent of students in all three grades were engaging in "responsible sexual behavior," defined as either abstinence or the use of a condom. Only seventh-graders, however, were meeting the "Healthy People 2010" goal for sexual behavior, which requires 95 percent of students to either practice abstinence or use condoms.

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Who really financed the study?

Re: Seventh Grade Sex in Knox County: Living Up to National Standards! -- The Observer

Posted by Vinnie , Jul 31,2001,13:58

MetroBlab

I usually find that learning who financed (or publicized) the study to push their own political/moral agenda is more enlightening than the studies themselves. Same thing with that "most college women want to get married but can't find it in a college social climate" study that was all over the news a couple weeks ago.

It's all about the money, man.