Condoms In School

2/10/16 we're talking about Condoms in School!

46% of teens 15-19 have had sex at least one 

32.8% of 9th graders have had sex --44.1% of 10th graders have had sex --53.2% of 11th graders have had sex --61.6% of 12th graders have had sex.  ----CDC, 2003

*Children 14 and younger are less likely than older teens to use contraceptives and take longer to begin using them.

*No state explicity requires parental consent or notification for contraceptives. 

*Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia explicitly allow minors to obtain contraceptive services without parental consent. 

Data gathered from the Guttmacher Institute and CBS News