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The report shares a long list of things we still don’t know, such as the impact of media on the reproductive health of black teens.
This report, the product of a literature review, synthesizes more than two decades of research on black teens and sex. It aims to explain why reproductive health measures for black teens have recently changed and identifies what we know — and still need to know — about this very important topic.
Black teens in single-parent families are more likely to have had sex than those in two-parent families. Perceptions about parental monitoring influence when a young black girl loses her virginity. And black teen girls who were not sexually active identified family influence as the strongest reason why. These same teens were also most likely to have a father living at home. In short: Parents matter.
