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Who Needs Cartoons When There’s Sex?

By Kennedy Alexander | VOX Staff

By Kennedy Alexander | VOX Staff

They should be playing video games or having fun outside. Instead, kids as young as 8 or 9 are having sex. A new Iowa State University study of low-income tweens and teens finds the average age for their first time was 12, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

I think that’s pretty appalling. I understand that parents can’t control if their children have sex or not, but they should at least talk to them about sex and what’s happening in their daily lives, so they don’t just hear about it from friends at school.

Kids at my school talk about sex so much, it gets annoying. It seems like they’re looking for love that they’re not getting at home. In class, you hear guys talk about the girls they’ve had sex with. Girls were getting pregnant left and right —  even in middle school. But elementary school??? That’s ridiculous.

Another sad thing about the study is that it said low-income kids are having sex; it didn’t say high-income kids are having sex. I wonder why. All I can say is it’s sad to hear that kids are having sex period before they’re even teens.

— By Georgio Conroe | VOX Staff

12 Comments

  1. i understand why they said low income kids but why they are so young i wonder if they do this for attention or “love” like what they have heard

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