The data indicates that "young people of recent years" is far more exemplary than the parent generation

ByTammy McGary

Teenagers of any age tend to make complaints from older people "recently young people ... ...", but when checking their behavior strictly, criticisms of adults are outrageous, or " You do not say "state is common. A large-scale survey conducted in biennially for over 10,000 high school students in the United States reveals that "recent young people" are far more exemplary than "old young people" as data .

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In America, the consciousness that "disturbance of young people's sex should be corrected" rises, and questionnaire survey of high school student's behavior "Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey(YRBSS)Has been held every other year since 1991. According to the questionnaire result obtained by this YRBSS, recent young people understood that it is not slut as much as expected, but rather acted more moderately than the parent generation.

The following data are based on "recent young people" born in the early 1990s and 20 years ago as their parent generationteenagerIt was the result of investigating the behavior pattern of "former young man" who was.

◆ sex
In the question "Whether you had sex within three months", 34% of young people in recent times have answered yes, while 37.5% of young people in the past answered yes.


In response to the question "Whether the first experience is before 13 years old", young people in recent years are 5.6%, while young people used to be 10.2%.


The percentage of women who bore children in their teens is 2.7% for young people these days, while 6.2% for former young people.


The condom wearing rate is about 60% of recent young people, while less than half of former young people.


In the above results, it is easy to misunderstand that there is no difference in correspondence to contraception because the difference in condoms wearing rate itself is not so large, but recently there are many contraceptive methods for young people. The utilization rate (blue) of pills effective for contraception is higher than that of condoms,Intrauterine contraceptive deviceSome people adopt other contraceptive methods such as IUD, so it seems that they can evaluate that they are doing much better contraception than former young people.


From the questionnaire about sex, it is obvious that "the sex of a young person is disturbed" that was the trigger for implementing YRBSS is only a mere thought, rather it is clear that the appearance of young people of recent years moderate to sexuality It is getting.

◆ Tobacco
A survey of tobacco that is often thought as a symbol of bad is like this.

The youth smoking rate in the age of teenagers is 15.7% in recent years, while the youth of former young people is 30.5%.


The percentage of those who have smoked, including interests, is 44.1% for young people these days, while 70.1% for young people.


The use rate of electronic cigarettes of young people these days is 8.8%. Of course there is no data for parents who did not have an electronic cigarette.


I found that young people tend to not smoke more than young people in the past. Regarding this cause, the crown raises that the advertisement of the cigarette was banned and that the increased taxes of repeated tobacco taxes disgusted.

◆ Alcohol and drag
Following cigarettes, investigation of alcohol and drugs is like this.

The percentage of teenagers who have drunk is 66.2% of young people in recent times, while 80.9% of young people in the past.


The percentage of people who have experienced marijuana is 40.7% for young people these days, 31.3% for young people. However, in the United States in recent years,There are several provinces where marijuana was legalizedIt seems necessary to consider it.


cocaineSo there is no big difference between young people and former young people.


The marijuana use rate (light blue) is slightly increasing, but the drinking rate (blue) of young people is steadily decreasing.


◆ Safety
Several questions have been asked to find out how young people think about "safety".

The rate of wearing seatbelts is 92.4% for young people these days, while 80.9% for young people.


The percentage of fighters who have fought fights is 24.7% for young people these days, while 42.5% for young people.


Recent percentage of people who have carried guns within the last 30 days is 5.5%.


It is said that 5.2% of these young people have recently brought weapons to school within a month.


The percentage of young people who recently thought about suicide seriously during the past year is 17% while those of young people in the past have become 29%.


As mentioned above, although the young man with the exact opposite moderation to the chanting by the adults was revealed, it became clear that young people in recent years have a tendency not to eat vegetables as much as the former young people and not to paint sunscreen He said that. Someday, when young people of recent years become adults, it seems to be compared with that child generation, but it is a matter of whether or not the next generation young people will be much more exemplary than images.