A recent study has found that several factors, when added together, create a powerful predictor of which teens will and wont be sexually active.
Dr. Janet Hyde and her team studied 273 teens ages 13 to 15, Reuters reported:
- About 15 percent of the surveyed teens reported having engaged in early sex
- Few of the surveyed teens said they used any kind of protection.
"Too much television, low self-esteem, low grades and poor family relationships can add up to early teenage sex,," Reuters reported. One of the strongest predictors of early sex is TV viewing, experts believe, because while TV portrays high levels of sexual activity among teenagers, it rarely shows the negative consequences.
"One thing probably by itself is not going to do it, but by the time you get two or three risk factors, things start to go downhill," Dr. Hyde said in the Reuters article.
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