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| Agree | 30% | 195 votes | Total: 660 votes | |
| Disagree | 70% | 465 votes |
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I have two teenage daughters, one currently in Grade 12 and one in Grade 9. Through their education their school has conducted sex education, which they keep going throughout t...read more
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At first glance I like many other readers began to immediately dismiss this study as a large work of fiction. But if we take time and consider today's world, this could very we...read more
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by Joshua Slye
While I cannot statistically verify that teens are becoming less sexually active, as I have seen stats that seem to both confirm and deny that statement, I can certainly verify ...read more
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Anyone who takes such a study as this at face value doesn't know anything about teenagers. Speaking as someone in his early twenties, I can say that they lie all the time. They ...read more
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by J.R. Anthony
Let's give teenagers some credit here. They're pretty savvy in digging up info - so they're more likely to know what being sexually active will do to them. With premarital se...read more
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by Ella Selden
I do agree that they are less sexually active as I have a daughter who is 19 and she has talked to me about what she and some of her friend feel about sex. They believe that you...read more
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Being a 14 year old teenager I can truly say that I can see a decreasing number of sexually active teens in our society. The number, I believe is decreasing due to the fact ...read more
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A study was done. Its results showed that teenagers are less sexually active. This much we know, which is why I'm placing this article on the agree side of this debate. Without ...read more
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Sex is declining among teenagers because of the increase of sexual awareness and the problems associated with having sex. Sex used to be a forbidden fruit, and now that it is be...read more
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by Lisa Irvin
I would have to agree. I talk to a lot of teens, and they are willing to speak freely about their feelings toward dating, boys, girls.... I am 42 years old and I can clearly see...read more
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I believe this subject is more than agree or disagree. It depends on the individual households. I mean I don't let my kids do half the things these parents allow their children....read more
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by Jan Lee
I believe more parents are talking to their teen about sex. It is no longer the hidden subject. Maybe because of all the mistakes the parents have made or their parents that ...read more
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may god bless us all yes,this is true and i agree to it and more over it is good sign or an healthy world tomorrow. In Vedas it is clearly said that the five aspects which...read more
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I agree with the study that teenagers are less sexually active today that they were in years past. Most teens today realize that there are the risks of contracting std's, and/or...read more
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this statement could very well be true. in schools and college etc there is more education on sex awareness on offer now then ever before. i think teenagers are more aware of th...read more
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I personally believe that a "survey" on teen sex is a serious waste of time. How many teenagers would actually feel comfortable being honest about that subject? What's worse a...read more
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by Poppy Fields
Statistics based on sexual behavior are difficult to trust. People are not always honest about their sexual behavior and all studies are usually subject to some from of bias, de...read more
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by T. Goss
If this is truly the case, then the study is flawed. Obviously, the study took in only a few areas. I live in an area around twenty miles from Burlington, Vermont and the numb...read more
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I think there is a lot of mistrust from teenagers when they are posed with a question regarding whether they are sexually active. My teenage years were not so long ago and whil...read more
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I actually chuckled when I read the debate title. Of course we all wish that teenagers were less sexually active. But thinking about the city I grew up in; just in the last 10...read more
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6 of 70
Sex is everywhere in today's reality. A 2007 study cites that teenagers are less sexually active I disagree! Teens are less sexually dynamic only in the studies; all one h...read more
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While many of us would love to believe that our children are influenced by this country's "abstinence only" education initiatives and are therefore delaying sexual activity, thi...read more
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First of all, I think that people who believe that article are really naive or parents of a teenager who still want to believe that their teenager is not having sex! I teach hig...read more
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One study after years of indifference to sexual responsibility isn't convincing enough to convince me that today's teenagers are serious about putting off intercourse and handli...read more
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by Paul D
Let's not all be fooled here. This is ONE study. Unless the sample size is every single teenager in the US, which it obviously isn't because nobody asked me, it will not neces...read more
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by Karen Anson
I would like to ask them did they take the pole at a church. I have young teenagers over at my house pretty well on a regular basis. I have always allowed all three of my childr...read more
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For that statement to be true the sample was small, carefully selected, perhaps even deceased. I offer my opinion only, no study, but it defies logic to believe there is less se...read more
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by Kyle Yaffe
This study is only a means for adults to reassure themselves that teenagers and children are not actively participating in such a way. Just as society is desensitized to scary m...read more
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I very much disagree with this study. I myself am a teenager(twenty) and I know that kids are having sex. There is a fourteen year old boy who lives down the road from...read more
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Even though a study may indicate that teenagers are sexually less active than previous years, I believe the results are misleading. Sadly, because of Bill Clinton's indiscretio...read more
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I'd like to know what areas this study was taken in. Personally, I find that the opposite is true. In 2001, when I graduated high school, there were 5 girls in my class pregnant...read more
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by Karmin Noles
Okay I am sorry to all you parents out there who believe their teen is not sexually active yet but this has to be said.... THE STUDIES LIE ALOT! To be bluntly honest kids are sm...read more
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I work with teenagers all day, and as I am not to much older, they talk freely. The county I live in has one of the highest teen preg. rates in the state! It's not that they a...read more
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This study might come to that conclusion, but there are lots of studies that show things that everyone knows are not true. There are studies that show smoking doesn't cause canc...read more
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by genzo
Seriously, there have been many of such surveys being done in the past and if memory serves me correct, almost all points to one conclusion: Teens are highly sexually addictive....read more
