Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Vol. 1

African-American adolescents' knowledge, health-related attitudes, sexual behavior, and contraceptive decisions: Implications for the prevention of adolescent HIV infection.

“…Even within AIDS epicenter cities, adolescents remain uninformed about the causes, transmission, or prevention of HIV infection and take few steps to protect themselves (DiClemente, Zorn, & Temoshok, 1986, 1987Helgerson, Petersen & The AIDS Education Study Group, 1988;Strunin & Hingson, 1987). Several studies found that in relation to White teenagers, minority adolescents were less knowledgeable about the protection afforded by condoms and held more misconceptions about casual contagion (DiClemente, Boyer, & Morales, 1988;DiClemente et al, 1986;Seltzer & Smith, 1988).…”

Adding up risks: Sexual debut and substance use among Italian university students

“…Early age makes unintended consequences even more difficult to overcome. Those who initiate sex in early adolescence are less likely to practise effective contraception (Hayes 1987;Atkins and Hart 2008), such as using condoms (Sonnenstein et al 1989), even in subsequent sexual activity, and they are more likely to experience adverse outcomes and related disadvantages in adolescence and into adulthood (Brew 2020). The teenage years are when youth may be attracted by the desire to experience unconventional and normbreaking behaviours in order to attain adult status as a sort of transition proneness (Jessor 1984;McCarty et al 2012;Inchley et al 2020).…”