The announcement took place at a forum sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Snowe on the importance of involving boys and men in teen pregnancy prevention efforts. New findings on the roles men and boys play in teen pregnancy were presented at the forum, scheduled for the week of Father's Day.
Most teenage girls are close in age to their first sexual partner, whom they know fairly well.
Nearly 70 percent of teen girls' first sexual partners are within two years of their age. However, about 10 percent of teen girls said their first sexual partner was five or more years older. The younger a girl is when she first has sex, the more likely her partner is to be older. The wider the age gap between a teen girl and her sexual partner, the more likely that she'll have multiple sexual partners and the less likely that she and her partner will use contraception at first sex. For too long, the roles of men and boys in teen pregnancy both the good and the bad have been ignored by the public and policymakers alike.