The “comprehensive” sex education crowd in the United States are fond of saying that abstinence-only education has been responsible for the stalling of.

A downward trend in teenage pregnancies and childbearing that started about 1995. A new government report, however, suggests another reason.

The other reason is motivation, and it has a lot to do with the boys. Data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth shows that most teenagers who have ever had sex (about 40 per cent of all teens) used contraception the first time:

79 per cent of females and 87 per cent of males. Condoms had been used at least once by 95 per cent of these young people. But, but… most of them think it is OK for a unmarried girl to have a baby and a significant number would be happy if they did.