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Well, at least they seem to be using contraception, since the teen pregnancy rate is down. Interestingly, we don't have any statistics on how many kids under 15 had sex back in the early 60's, when I was that age. It wasn't at all uncommon back then, either. It just wasn't studied.

I'd guess that the rate hasn't changed all that much, to tell you the truth, but I didn't do a survey of my peers back then, either.

Further, among the boys, asking whether they have had sex is likely to produce some invalid answers, I'd bet. Girls are more likely to tell the truth about such things, anonymously than boys are.

I'm pretty sure that at least a third of my peers at age sixteen in 1966 were no longer virgins. I'm surprised that four fifths of fifteen year olds have yet no actual carnal knowledge.

I have noticed, in the last few years, that they no longer report the teen pregnancy rate. They now report the birth rate among teens. This lowers the numbers, as they are no longer counting teens that have abortions as having been pregnant. If you add the teen abortion numbers to the teen birth numbers, I wonder if we have made any progress at all.