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State Policies on Sex Education in Schools 

By Megan Foreman Vol . 17, No. 21 / April-May 2009

 

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Who teaches teens about sex?

Who teaches teens about sex? The media? Their friends?  Their parents?  Their school?  A 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey indicates that 48 percent of all high school students say they have had sex; and by graduation, 63 percent of males and 66 percent of females have had sex.  Among students who had sex in the three months prior to the survey, 62 percent reported condom use, and 16 percent reported birth control pill use during their last sexual encounter. 

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