Nations Fear the Shrinking Number of Young People Having Sex

The Atlantic recently published an article highlighting nations’ fears over the shrinking number of young people having sex. 

According to The Atlantic, more Americans than ever before believe that sex between unmarried adults is “not wrong at all.” Still, the percentage of young adults having sex has gone down significantly. 

Reportedly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse has gone down from 54 to 40 percent from 1991 to 2017. Additionally, they found that the number of young adults in their 20s who are having sex has gone down noting that “fewer people have been marrying, and those who do have been marrying later.”

The article asks if this is a result of unmarried cohabitation, but to researchers’ surprise, they found that “the share of people living together hasn’t risen enough to offset the decline in marriage.” They found that “about 60 percent of adults under age 35 now live without a spouse or a partner. One in three adults in this age range live with their parents, making that the most common living arrangement for the cohort.” According to The Atlantic, young adults who live with their parents are having sex at lower rates. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey also found that the number…