Skip to main content

Teenage Americans

Adolescent sexual behaviour
  • Nearly 70% of all unmarried females are nonvirgins by age 19 (80% of males).
    • 25% of females have had sex by age 15; almost all these encounters were forced or coerced.
    • Average age of first sexual experience is 16 years.


  • Adolescents in the aggregate still drift into sexual activity rather than decide to have sex.
    • Most adolescent sexual activity will take place in the context of one primary relationship.

    • Most adolescents are not promiscuous, but "serially monogamous."

    Recent survey tells us that 57% of adolescents claim to have used a male barrier method during their last act.
    • Research suggests that this might be an over statement. Most do not do what they say.

    • More than 50% of sexually active adolescents do not use birth control regularly.

This is what KAPLAN tells me! The point is that we should not let these problems creep into our society. We happen to be following every vice of the western world without hesitation thinking, or pretending to think, that they are a usual part of the package of success. Dictator's newly preached enlightened moderation may be a good point but for most of the population it is just another excuse to blatantly follow what every American or British night club has to offer.
   Our metropolitan cities have changed for the worst in the past 6 years or so. All of a sudden there is a change which involves degradation of moral values and shunning of good aptitudes. All night raves are as commonplace as ice cream hawkers in the summer time. Drugs have creeped in like a menace. Bars are common knowledge and still lot is on its way. This change where it is bad in its own place serves to widen the rift between the priviliged and the under priviliged. Smaller cities have plunged into the other side of extremism. People from these parts feel left out and are getting angrier by the day. Worthlessness is creeping in for those who can not afford to run alongside the others. I see disturbance very similar to French riots in not so distant future if such trends exist for a longer time.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Learning Arduino 1

This holiday season I decided to gift myself some basic electrical components in the form of a Arduino UNO set from Elegoo. I have always had a desire to tinker with electronics and in gifting myself this basic set I am now starting on a journey to quench my inner electrical workman's thirst. I hope to develop this hobby as I move forward and will, from time to time, post about it here on the blog. As the journey moves forward I am sure to run into trouble and issues. But as they say you can not master anything without first being a fool at it, so I have decided to remain a fool at it until I am a little good at it. To start with, I do possess some elementary knowledge in electronics and electronic circuits. I intend to further my knowledge using the world wide web and following some very useful video channels on youtube. I will first start with some very basic projects to familiarize myself with Arduino and basic electronic circuits and techniques such as soldering. Then graduall...

XBOX ONE controller

I have been using the new xbox for many days now. The most important part of the console is obviously it's controller as this is the part we interact with most. In comparison to the xbox 360 controller the build quality of this controller seems slightly compromised. There is little counter weight in the wings of this controller and therefore it does not feel quite as sturdy in hand as the old one. However the shape has been elongated a bit and this actually probably compensates for the weight issue. All the buttons are within reach of my fingers which is good. One thing I have liked about the xbox controller is the snug fit in my hands. This is unlike sony's six axis controller. Those are obviously made for smaller hands. The sony controllers are much sturdier as I have learnt over the years I have had the play station. They took a lot of beating but came out winning. I don't think I expect same quality from the xbox controllers.  Also I have been getting a taste of Microso...

Tax skirting by hospital systems?

The issue of avoiding federal taxes is in the news these days with Apple being in the spotlight.  Most of the times big companies avoid paying US taxes by skirting their profits to tax havens.  Healthcare giants can do the same theoretically.  Imagine if there were a health care giant that opens up shop in tax haven islands and then uses the same technique that commercial entities use to skirt their profits out of the country, thereby avoiding taxes.  This is very much possible.  The of shore clinics can be potentially used to complicate the tax return filing system here in US.  I could never understand why a completely US hospital system would like to open up a clinic in Bahamas.  These clinics are portrayed as the global reach of the entity but who do they actually serve.  We never hear about them in press or public.  These clinics are apparently manned by some doctors we never hear about.  How does this system work?  I really do...