A new Zogby poll revealed 80 percent of parents think sex education in public schools should place more emphasis on promoting abstinence over contraceptive use.  Ninety percent think it is important for schools to emphasize abstaining from sex given the high number of STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) among teens.

• More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study.
• The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people — about 33,000 of them women — in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal National Survey of Family Growth.
• According to Finer's analysis, 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.
• Among women born between 1950 and 1978, at least 91 percent had had premarital sex by age 30
  • those born in the 1940s, 88 percent had done so by age 44.
• By the exact age of 20 years, 77% of individuals had had sex
• By age 44, 99% of Americans had had sex

• More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study.
• 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.
• Even among a subgroup of those who abstained from sex until at least age 20, four-fifths had had premarital sex by age 44
• The study found women virtually as likely as men to engage in premarital sex, even those born decades ago.
• Among women born between 1950 and 1978, at least 91 percent had had premarital sex by age 30, he said, while among those born in the 1940s, 88 percent had done so by age 44.