When Parents Speak Up, Kids Listen. Kids are bombarded daily with messages about sex from television programs to popular songs to magazine articles. Media messages are just one contributor to the alarming state of sexual activity among American pre-teens and young-teens today ¹. Did you know:

• About 46% of high school students in the U.S. have had sexual intercourse.¹
• Each year, 1 in 4 teens contracts an STD.¹
• First time AI/AN mothers on average, are YOUNGER than first time Black, Hispanic, or White mothers.¹
• In 2006, AI/ANs had the second highest rates of Chlamydia infection and gonorrhea, and the third highest rate of syphilis in the U.S.²
• 2 out of 3 sexually active teens wish they had waited longer to have sex.²

¹Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved June 20, 2006, from http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/population/native.asp

²Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. STD Surveillance 2006, Trends in Reportable Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the US 2006. Retrieved from http://cdc.gov/std/stats/trends2006.htm on 12/13/07

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