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Article: Sexual activity drops among teen-age girls: Rate in survey had risen steadily since '70.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1997
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The percentage of teen-age girls who have had sexual intercourse fell from 55 percent in 1990 to 50 percent in 1995, the first decline in more than two decades, a national survey shows.
"We welcome the news that the long-term increase in teen-age sexual activity may finally have stopped," Donna E. Shalala, the secretary of health and human services, said in a speech in California yesterday.
But the findings of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) should not "lull us into doing less," she said. "We need to change the cultural messages that have been accepted too long."
As if on cue, officials and allies of the National Campaign to ...