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in behavior among the nation's adolescents. While teen birth rates in this country
remain high relative to other nations, young people here appear to be embracing
messages urging them to refrain from early sexual activity, and those who do have sex
are using contraceptives more reliably.
This includes increased condom use, which researchers link to AIDS prevention
warnings, and among some groups, a shift away from the pill to the injectable Depo
Provera and Norplant.
Federal surveys indicate that among African American females aged 15 to 19 using
contraceptives, 24 percent said they used an injection or implant, and 32 percent used
the pill. Among all women over 30 practicing contraception, by contrast, fewer than 2
percent use injections or implants.
'The greatest uptake [of injections and implants] is among young black women, and
they are also experiencing the sharpest decline in pregnancy,' said Jeanie Rosoff,
president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
Researchers have argued that Depo Provera, an injection that lasts three months,
and Norplant, an implant that lasts five years, are more effective with young people
whose sexual activity is sporadic and who often have a hard time consistently using
other contraceptives.
Pregnancy statistics are compiled from federal birth data, abortion data gathered by
Guttmacher from abortion providers and miscarriage estimates.
An analysis also published by Guttmacher attributed the decline in sexual activity
among teens and the increase in contraception to 'a confluence of factors, including
greater emphasis on abstinence, more conservative attitudes about sex, fear of AIDS,
the popularity of the long-lasting methods
and even the economy.'
A recent federal study reported that the proportion of high school students who had
had sexual intercourse has fallen 11 percent during the 1990s. And other surveys
have shown that a smaller share of young people approved of premarital sex in the
mid-1990s than a decade earlier, according to the Guttmacher analysis, written by
researcher Patricia Donovan.
Also, the National Survey of Family Growth, a federal survey, reported that the
proportion of teenage girls using contraceptives the first time they had intercourse rose
from 48 percent in the early 1980s to 78 percent in 1995.
And an economy that improves job opportunities is thought by many experts to
change the attitudes and behavior of young people, perhaps dissuading them from
wanting to have a child.
Many of these changes, said Rosoff, are part of a larger cultural change that has
convinced teenagers of the negative consequences of unprotected sexual activity.
She compared it to drug use, saying, 'Everybody thinks it's cool until they realize the
consequences, then they return to more moderate behavior. The same is true with
sexual activity.'
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