Report shows condom use fails to decrease teen pregnancy, STDs :: EWTN News: An October 2011 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an increase in condom use by teenagers of both sexes between the ages of 15 and 19. Despite the increase in condom usage, the chances of pregnancy did not decrease, the report found. The data from the 2006-2010 survey indicated an 18 percent “probability of having had a birth before age 20,” identical to the probability shown in the 2002 survey.
Eighty percent of teenage males reported using a condom in their first sexual encounter, up by nine percentage points from 2002. Close to 75 percent of teenage males said they used a condom in their most recent sexual encounter, up from 70.7 percent in the previous study. Around 96 percent of sexually active teenage females reported having ever used a condom, compared to over 93 percent in 2002.
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