Topic > Technology In 'Growing UScial' by Gary Chapman - 1028

The media does not announce the danger and effects of sexual performance, sex is spreading widely in the media and the Internet. This risk is a fact of life for American teenagers. Although the rate of teen pregnancy has declined in the United States, it is twice as low in Europe and nine times as high in Japan. And “sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise.” (54) According to James P. Steyer, the author of “The Other Parent,” “A quarter of sexually active adolescents – approximately four million children – are infected with sexually transmitted diseases each year,” (54) according to James P. Steyer, the author of “The Other Parent,” the most disturbing reports involve AIDS. AIDS is the leading cause of loss among young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. (56) Those who were affected by AIDS were in their twenties and were infected at a young age.