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Clearinghouse: Teenage Sex
Clearinghouse Homepage
Title: Teen Sex and Pregnancy
URL (Internet "address"): http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_teen_sex.html#14
Sponsor: A non-profit organization sponsored by The Alan Guttmacher Institute to provide information on teen pregnancy.
Author/credentials: The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Date posted: 1999
Description of Site: This site provides much information on adolescent sexual activity, teen pregnancy, and provides statistics and information on the effects of pregnancy and adolescent sexual activity. On this site they provide charts of the percent of sexual activity in different age groups, and the percentage of teen pregnancy out comes.
This website also offers information on the risk of sexual transmitted diseases. It lists statistics of female teens that contract these diseases. It provides different diseases and tells the reader how easy it is to get a disease from having unprotected sex. Also on this website it provides information on contraceptives for women and how well they work. This site gives information to young girls on childbearing, and mothering at a young age.
Reviewed by: Amanda Servello from Dr. Dan Lago's Spring 2006 HDFS 129 class.
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