Read the federal government’s report on preliminary births data for 2006. It says that the birth rate for teens rose in 2006 – the first increase since 1991. This is the full report by the National Center for Health Statistics is also available. The 2006 increase came on the heels of a record low set […]

A federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on teenage sexual activity and contraceptive use.

A report from the national Center for Health Statistics that includes figures on sexual behavior among U.S. teens. It says, among other things, that 25 percent of 15-year-old boys have had vaginal intercourse, and the figure jumps to 62 percent for 18-year-old males. The corresponding figures for girls were 26 percent and 70 percent, respectively.

Ho-Youn Kwon is associate professor of sociology at North Park University in Chicago, executive director for the Center for Korean Studies and co-editor of Korean Americans and Their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries From a Different Shore (Pennsylvania University Press, 2001).

Randy Isaac is a solid-state physics research scientist and executive director of the American Scientific Affiliation, a national, nondenominational organization founded in 1941 for “men and women in science and disciplines that relate to science who share a common fidelity to the Word of God and a commitment to integrity in the practice of science.” He can […]

Nam Soon Song is Ewart Professor of Christian Education and Youth Ministry and director of the Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

An Advocates for Youth report that looks at the period from 1998-2003.

The full report by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. on the effectiveness of four abstinence-education programs. According to the study, released in April 2007, participants “were no more likely than control group youth to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having had sex, they had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated […]

• A poll released Aug. 3, 2005, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 78 percent of Americans favor allowing public schools to provide students with birth control information while 76 percent believe schools should teach teenagers to abstain from sex until marriage. Solid majorities in every major religious […]