NATION IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Teen-Age Girls’ Sex Activity Increases
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The sexual activity of teen-age girls increased sharply in the 1980s, despite the risk of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and an onslaught of public-health messages urging them to abstain, according to an analysis of a federally funded national survey. The greatest increase was among girls who are white or from higher-income families. In 1988, the median age for first intercourse for black females was 16.6 years and for whites 17.8 years.
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