This would include grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. This gave many young adolescents the opportunity to talk to someone about their problems. Today's teens are in trouble and they feel they have nowhere to turn. They are desperately crying out for help, but no one listens. When society finally hears their cries, it may be too late.
Some kids do it just to be 'cool'.
Others do it to run away from family or friend problems. When talk of sex comes up, rarely is contraception included in the conversa- tion. Four out of five are not married and over half of them get an abortion to solve this problem. Actually the number of teen pregnancies has held at about one million a year for the past 20 years. What has changed is the percentage as the number of sexually active teens has increased.