The smart Dutch take on teen sex »

Despite parents’ allowing romantic sleepovers, the Netherlands has one of the lowest youth pregnancy rates

…”In 2007, births to American teens (ages fifteen to nineteen) were eight times as high as in the Netherlands,” reports Schalet, and the Netherlands generally whoops on the states in terms of STD rates, too.

The half-Dutchie in me is so proud of my people. And this study is also one of the reasons why I love being a sociology graduate student.

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