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Teens express regret and experience depression due to their sexual activity.
- Teenage girls who are sexually active are three times more likely to be depressed than are girls who are not active. Those girls who are sexually active are almost three times more likely to attempt suicide than are girls who are not active
- Teenage boys who are sexually active are more than twice as likely to be depressed than are boys who are not active. Those boys who are sexually active are almost ten times more likely to attempt suicide than are boys who are not active.
- Almost two thirds of sexually active teenage boys and girls state that they wish they had waited longer before beginning sexual activity.
(American Family Association, Heritage Foundation, National Campaign to
Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Focus on the Family, LifeSiteNews.com, 6/5,
6/21, 7/24) Published in LifeDate, Fall 2003
