Doing so would suggest teens have won the battle over curbing sexual activity. The morally sound approach is to continue to promote abstinence. The problem with the single approach is that it doesn't work. Visit area hospital maternity wards on any given day for proof. Parents, however, say they believe friends influence sexual behavior far more than parents do.
Teens face pressures to have sex, from their partners as well as their friends.
For boys, friends exert more pressure than partners. There still is this misperception that teen pregnancy is a girl problem that gets solved with lectures for girls. Obviously, the million girls who got pregnant last year didn't do it alone. No they didn't. And they're old enough to hear all the options and can siphon through the information, according to the nationwide survey.