TO WHAT extent are young people experimenting with sex and drugs? For kids in the US, we’ll know this week. Every two years, some 14,000 teens fill in a questionnaire on various risky behaviours, and the results from 2007 are now ready for public scrutiny.
This snapshot of the vices of America’s teens comes from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). Recent trends are mostly encouraging, with kids reporting falling use of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs, and that they are becoming less likely to have sex. Yet according to Gavan Fitzsimons, a psychologist at Duke University…
