Statistics and Facts About Teen Pregnancy And STD

"Celibacy is the only 100% effective way to prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancy and STDs."

  Each year over one million pregnancies occur among teenagers.

Ages 14-19

Every 30 seconds a teenage girl becomes pregnant in the United States.

Ages 14-17

Over 3 million teenage girls are affected with the HPV disease

Ages 14-19

Condoms fail 15% of the time and doesn’t prevent HPV at all. Birth control pills has a 8% failure rate.

Condoms = 15% failure  /  Birth Control Pills = 8% failure

Sexual Activity starts as early as middle school.

Age  10

1 in 4 teenage girls is infected with some type of STD.

Ages 14-19

Everyday in America over 10,000 teens become affected with STD.

Ages 14-19

By age 18, around 65% of women and 68% of men have had sexual intercourse.

Age 13-18

"Celibacy is the only 100% effective way to prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancy and STDs."

"Proponents of abstinence-only sex education argue that this approach is superior to comprehensive sex education because it emphasizes the teaching of morality that limits sex to that within the bounds of marriage, and that sex before marriage and at a young age has heavy physical and emotional costs. They suggest that comprehensive sex education encourages premarital sexual activity among teenagers, which should be discouraged in an era when HIV and other incurable sexually transmitted infections are widespread and when teen pregnancy is an ongoing concern."  Wikipedia