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Teens begin sex at age sixteen says study
New York based UPI report summarizes a Parents magazine piece by Robert Booth. The Alan Guttmacher Institute study finds 80 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls have intercourse in adolescence and 16 is the average first experience. It notes one in ten teenage girls becomes pregnant yearly and about 70 percent of babies born to young mothers are out of wedlock, with half of pregnancies occurring in the first six months of sexual activity.
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