What Is Happening To Our Youth?!

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We gave them

Grand Theft Auto 4
UFC
Jessica Simpson
TMZ
Faster Internet
Britney Spears
The Family Guy
Adult Swim
Looser FCC standards on cable television
Harry Potter Movies and so many other things that were supposed to ruin kids.

And what did they do according to the CDC?

US teens are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and smoking fewer cigarettes than those who grew up in the 1990s, a study released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found.They are also more likely to use condoms when they do have sex, wear a seat belt and avoid getting into a car with a driver who’s been drinking, the national study of youth risk behavior found.

About 48 percent of high school students were no longer virgins in 2007, down from 54 percent in 1991.

Meanwhile, just 15 percent said they’d had four or more sexual partners, down from 19 percent in 1991.

And 62 percent of sexually active students said they’d used a condom the last time they had sex, up from 46 percent in 1991.

Some 35 percent of teens had at least one drink of alcohol in the month before they were surveyed in 2007, down from 42 percent in 1991.

Marijuana used has fallen to 20 percent of students from a peak of 27 percent in 1999 while methamphetamine use is down to four percent of teens surveyed in 2007 from 10 percent in 2001.

Nearly half as many students admitted to carrying some kind of weapon: 17 percent in 2007 compared with 33 percent in 1991.

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