I’m surprised so few people my age knew teenage moms. I graduated from HS in the late 1990s, and definitely knew/knew of a fair number of teenage parents (one even had a baby in 8th grade). My HS actually had a program for teen moms… they provided childcare onsite & support/education to help the moms stay in school & graduate. But the adjacent county had a really high teen pregnancy rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Studies show that teen sexual activity is much lower now than in previous generations, as is teen pregnancy. Kids these days are not having sex.

Yes they are. Not as many since the pandemic but about a third by 18:years old. They are more educated in birth control and abortion than previous generations. They are also more likely to have oral sex instead.

I think everyone is talking past one another, perhaps because of focusing on different timeframes. When I went to college in the late 80s, our college orientation person said that in the US at that time, 50% of girls were sexually active prior to college. (They were trying to assure people that they were all "normal." I don't know the number now, but if you're saying its 33%, then that is much lower.