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episode 64: Teen Sex Isn’t the Problem (But Thinking That It Is Sure Is)
"She attributed this to three factors.
- Much more than Americans, the Dutch see a relationship between love and sex. They believe that teens are as capable of falling in love as are adults and so do not assume that adolescents will be damaged by sex.
- Contraception became easily available to Dutch teens in the early 1970s, and abortion is not only accessible, but it is not the controversial issue that it is in the States.
- America has an incredibly high poverty rate compared to most Western European countries. And though negative outcomes of sex are directly linked to poverty, a lot of American see it the other way round. As Schalet explains, “For Americans, the idea of poverty and teen sex are entangled, and there is this notion that if you have sex as a teen, you will turn out to be poor.”
The result of these differing attitudes is that even as Americans see marked improvements in teen sexual health, our teens are still just nowhere near as sexually healthy as are Dutch youth, whose rates of teen pregnancy are four times lower than ours and whose rates of condom use reach 85% percent."
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