Fill in the Blank Quiz


1		The United States is a society in regard to sexual socialization.


2		Margaret Mead felt that the sexual socialization of young people in the United States is .


3		American adolescents tend to believe that sexual relationships should be characterized by and .


4		adolescents are more likely than adolescents to engage in autoerotic behaviors.


5		By age , close to half of African American males have experienced sexual intercourse.


6		The median age for first intercourse for American adolescents is .


7		The proportion of female college students who have experienced sexual intercourse has increased by greater than percent since 1965.


8		Young people who are sexually active have self-esteem in comparison to young people who are not sexually active.


9		Early sexual activity has been linked with a tendency toward experimentation with .


10		The sexual involvement of female adolescents is influenced by .


11		adolescents are more likely than adolescents to think about sexual relationships in terms of achievement and competition.


12		Adolescents are sexually abused at a rate younger children.


13		Victims of sexual abuse have higher rates of and than adolescents who have not been sexually abused.


14		Close to percent of sexually active adolescents surveyed report that they never use contraception.


15		The is a popular method of birth control among adolescents.


16		Contraceptive use is related to adolescent age.


17		About percent of American teenagers contract a sexually transmitted infection before graduation from high school.


18		About percent of females in the United States become pregnant by the age of 18.


19		Research indicates that marriage typically the circumstances of adolescent mothers and their children.


20		Most adolescent females become pregnant because .


21		The developmental difficulties that tend to be apparent in children of adolescent mothers are usually due to .


22		is a key ingredient in helping adolescent mothers cope with parenting.


23		Young children are about sexuality.


24		is a branch of social science that is devoted to studying development in context.


25		Boys whose friends are sexually active are likely themselves to be involved in sex.

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