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As the mom of a girl, recently released survey statistics on teen girls and sex, drugs and violence made me vow to homeschool her, ban all broadcast and print media and limit social interaction with anyone other than her nuclear family – at least for the next 18 years. OK, she’s only a toddler right now and I know I have some time, but this is exactly why I was freaked out to have a girl – because I knew that she would eventually turn into a teenager.
Tyra Banks, host of the widely-popular-amongst-teen-girls “Tyra Banks Show” posted a survey on her Web site over the summer in which more than 10,000 teenage girls participated anonymously to divulge everything about their social lives. Questions around sexuality, teen pregnancy, drinking and drugs dominated the survey and the results are shocking:
- On average, girls are losing their virginity at 15 years of age.
- 14 percent of teens who are having sex say they’re doing it at school.
- 52 percent of survey respondents say they do not use protection when having sex.
- One in three says she fears having a sexually transmitted disease.
- 24 percent of teens with STDs say they still have unprotected sex.
- One in five girls says she wants to be a teen mom.
- About 50 percent acknowledge that they’ve hit someone.
- One out of three teens has tried drugs.
Terrifying.
Now, does this represent the entire cross-section of teenage girls? Of course not. There are tens (hopefully hundreds) of thousands of teenage girls who are just as disturbed by these results as I am. But for the young girls who are engaging in this dangerous behavior, who is to blame? The media? The parents? Yes and yes. According to Banks, these girls are “not talking to their parents; they’re embarrassed to talk to their parents…And more than them being embarrassed to talk to their parents, their parents are embarrassed to talk to them.”
Type in “talking to your teen about sex” on Google and 476,000 results appear. There are plenty of resources available to parents who don’t know where or how to begin. Thankfully, I’m years and years away from when I’ll be having these conversations with my kids, and will relish every moment that they remain young, innocent and oblivious to the ways of the world. But I do know that day will eventually come and when it does, I’ll be ready. I will have been preparing for it for at least 10 years.
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