Facts in Brief (Source: Guttmacher Institute):
- By their 18th birthday, 6 in 10 teenage women and 7 in 10 teenage men have had sexual intercourse.
- Men spend slightly longer being sexually active before getting married.
- By their late teenage years, 3 in 4 men and women have had intercourse.
- More than 2 in 3 of all sexually experienced teens have had 2 or more partners.
- A sexually active teenager who does not use contraception has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year.
- Of the approximately 950,000 teenage pregnancies that occur each year, about 3 in 4 are unintended. Over one quarter of these pregnancies end in abortion
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