About 21% of teens between 18-24 reach 9th grade, but don't complete high school.
In 2005, 44.1% of sexually active female high school students did not use a condom at their most recent sexual intercourse.
1 out of 4 violent episodes are being perpetrated by teen girls, up from just a generation ago.
15% of sexual assault and rape victims are under age 12.
Girls ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
Teen girls in the bottom 20% of basic reading and math skills are five times more likely to become mothers over a two-year high school period than teen girls in the top 20%.
In 2005, 12% of high school females had sexual intercourse with four or more persons during their lifetime.
Annually, there are over 750,000 teen pregnancies. Eight in ten of these pregnancies are unintended and 81% are to unmarried teens.
An estimated half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25. Most young people are infected through sex.
Among 15-17-year olds, 51 percent say that they are personally concerned that they might “do more” sexually than they planned to because they were drinking or using drugs.
Nearly one in 10 (9%) 9-12th grade students report having been physically forced to have sexual intercourse when they did not want to at some point.
14.3% of sexually active girls attempted suicide while 5.1% of teens who are not sexually active have attempted suicide.
Sources: Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, keystosaferschools.com, Kaiser Family Foundation, Heritage.org, The Guttmacher Institute, U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics, National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity, Centers for Disease Control
