Do Contraceptive Users Perform as Well as Abstinent Teens?
There are two competing approaches to sex education in the United States. Abstinence education encourages teens to abstain from sexual activity. By contrast, comprehensive sex education or safe sex programs focus, almost exclusively, in encouraging youth to use condoms. The fact that teens who are sexually abstinent perform better academically provides an additional reason for the support of abstinence education. However, it is possible that sexually active teens who use contraception may also perform better academically. The Add Health database contains information, not merely on sexual activity, but on contraceptive use as well. Sexually active teens are asked whether or not they used a condom during first vaginal intercourse. Condom use during first intercourse is often mentioned as a measure of success for safe sex educators and is regarded as predictive of subsequent condom use. Thus, the Add Health survey enables us to answer the question: Do sexually active teens who use contrac
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