HD FS 239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Apache Hadoop, Orgasm, Virginity Pledge
22 Sep 2016
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Household composition predicts sexual involvement: especially among girls. Adolescents more likely to be sexually active earlier than peers if: parents in process of divorcing, girls who live in single parent households. Social influences have stronger affect on girls than boys. Single-parent mothers might be dating and this might model sexual activety to adolescents. Girls more likely to respond to problems at home by going outside for alternative support. Having sexually active peers establishes a normative standard that having sex is okay. Peers can communicate directly about sex, with friends or potential partners. Risk factors for sexual activity are cumulative. Only works for younger adolescents: no effect on high school students. Those who take a virginity pledge less likely to use contraception. Other contexts in which virginity pledges don"t work: in schools with very few students take virginity pledges, in schools where nearly everyone pledges.
