Kristin A. Moore and Anne Driscoll

A national study of more than 10,000 women and girls found that most teen girls are close in age to their sexual partners, report Kristin A. Moore and Anne Driscoll in the following viewpoint. The study also discovered that the closer the ages are between a teen girl and her first sexual partner, the more likely they are to use contraception, the fewer partners the girl will have during her teen years, and the less likely she will be to give birth while a teen. Furthermore, Moore and Driscoll assert, girls who grow up with both biological parents in the home are less likely to have sex than teen girls who grow up without fathers or with stepfathers. Moore is president of Child Trends, Inc., a research organization...