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Watch your teens this week!!!!!
By Martha Irvine, Associated Press, 12/24/02
School's out for the holidays. Teens have got time on their hands -- and perhaps even a crackling fire to set the mood. What are they planning for vacation?
Apparently, losing their virginity is high on the list for those with significant others, according to researchers who reviewed data from a federal health survey.
While June is the most common month for teens to have sex for the first time -- be it in a casual summer fling or steady relationship -- sociologists from Mississippi State University say many teens who are dating seriously choose December as the time to have sex for the first time.
In fact, their findings have led them to predict that teens with romantic partners are nearly three times more likely to make their sexual debut in December than those dating casually.
The accent on romance has led them to conclude that the holiday season -- and all the mushiness that surrounds it -- plays a key role.
"We call it the 'Santa Claus effect," says Martin Levin, lead author of the study, which is published in the current issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.
The data was drawn from the ongoing National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the responses of nearly 21,000 teens, as young as seventh-graders, collected in the mid-1990s (the most current data of its kind in the survey). The Mississippi State researchers cross-referenced the month teens said they lost their virginity with responses to questions about the seriousness of their relationships with sexual partners.
In this case, they defined losing virginity as sexual intercourse for the first time between a boy and girl.
By Martha Irvine, Associated Press, 12/24/02
School's out for the holidays. Teens have got time on their hands -- and perhaps even a crackling fire to set the mood. What are they planning for vacation?
Apparently, losing their virginity is high on the list for those with significant others, according to researchers who reviewed data from a federal health survey.
While June is the most common month for teens to have sex for the first time -- be it in a casual summer fling or steady relationship -- sociologists from Mississippi State University say many teens who are dating seriously choose December as the time to have sex for the first time.
In fact, their findings have led them to predict that teens with romantic partners are nearly three times more likely to make their sexual debut in December than those dating casually.
The accent on romance has led them to conclude that the holiday season -- and all the mushiness that surrounds it -- plays a key role.
"We call it the 'Santa Claus effect,"
says Martin Levin, lead author of the study, which is published in the current issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.The data was drawn from the ongoing National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the responses of nearly 21,000 teens, as young as seventh-graders, collected in the mid-1990s (the most current data of its kind in the survey). The Mississippi State researchers cross-referenced the month teens said they lost their virginity with responses to questions about the seriousness of their relationships with sexual partners.
In this case, they defined losing virginity as sexual intercourse for the first time between a boy and girl.
) at my Junior prom.........her name, Stephanie..........DEFINITELY an "outdoor " girl type
