pregnant everyday, adding new numbers to the population. Many of our environmental ills stem from overpopulation. More densely populated areas are correlated with higher levels of natural resource use and increased pollution.A practice of abstinence would be a way to 100% full proof the teen pregnancy issue, along with the trading and/or sharing of STDs like they are Pokemon cards. Of course there are teenagers whom no matter what, want to take the risk of being a teen parent or new founder of a STD. Sexual activityMost very young teens have not had intercourse: 8 in 10 girls and 7 in 10 boys are sexually inexperienced at age 15.The likelihood of teenagers' having intercourse increases steadily with age; however, about 1 in 5 young people do not have intercourse while teenagers.Most young people begin having sex in their mid-to-late teens, about 8 years before they marry; more than half of 17-year-olds have had intercourse.While 93% of teenage women report that their first intercourse was voluntary, one-quarter of these young women report that it was unwanted.The younger women are when they first have intercourse, the more likely they are to have had unwanted or non-voluntary first sex--7 in 10 of those who had sex before age 13, for example.Nearly two-thirds (64%) of sexually active 15-17-year-old women have partners who are within two years of their age; 29% have sexual partners who are 3-5 years older, and 7% have partners who are six or more years older.Most sexually active young men have female partners close to their age: 76% of the partners of 19-year-old men are either 17 (33%) or 18 (43%); 13% are 16, and 11% are aged 13-15 Teen pregnancyEach year, almost 1 million teenage women--10% of all women aged 15-19 and 19% of those who have had sexual intercourse--become pregnant.The overall U.S. teenage pregnancy rate declined 17% between 1990 and 1996, from 117 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 to 97 per 1,000.78...
