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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW - all of the kids that I knew who were dating in middle school were having sex by HS.  Or at least the rumor was floating around that they were.
I just don't think that a 12, 13, 14 year old kid needs that.  Supervised dances, activities, neighborhood bbqs are one thing.  But allowing boys and girls of that age to go off together as buddies on a "date" is just asking for trouble. It's playing with fire.[/quote]

Needs what? Having sex in high school? Or having rumors floating around that they are having sex in high school? There are two important things to learn in high school, in my opinion:

1. Rumors are often baseless.
2. You shouldn't engage in malicious gossip.[/quote]

Ummm [b]most kids are having sex in high school[/b].  Get a clue! [/quote]

That depends on what you're saying. Are you saying that most high school kids have sex? That is factually incorrect. Or are you saying that most (defined as >50%) have had sex by the time they finish high school? That might be correct, if you assume that most kids are 18 when they graduate from high school.

[i]Fewer than 2% of adolescents have had sex by the time they reach their 12th birthday. But adolescence is a time of rapid change. Only 16% of teens have had sex by age 15, compared with one-third of those aged 16, nearly half (48%) of those aged 17, 61% of 18-year-olds and 71% of 19-year-olds.[1] There is little difference by gender in the timing of first sex.[/i]

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-ATSRH.html[/quote]

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