Girls With Early Puberty, Older Boyfriends At Greater Risk For Drugs, Sex, Alcohol
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 25 March 2007 |
Teenaged girls who pass into physically sooner than their peers and who and have a caring buddy at primary two agedness older have a enhanced risk for substance abuse, sex and a combination of sex and drug use, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.
Teenaged girls who pass into physically sooner than their peers and who and have a caring buddy at primary two agedness older have a enhanced risk for substance abuse, sex and a combination of sex and drug use, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.
"Adolescent girls and boys all are at pledge for experimenting with sex, alcohol and drugs," said Carolyn Tucker Halpern, sidekick professor of maternal and son health in the UNC School of Public Health. "Those who wax
first off are familiar to be at another risk for these problems. But within that group, girls who have an older boyfriend appear to be at an extra risk for multiple high-risk behaviors such as intravenous drug use, marijuana use and sexual intercourse."
The chew over was based on a nationally exclusive parade of about 4,000 adolescents who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The students were subservient establish 15 for the first original of the study, carried out during the 1994-1995 school year, and have been tracked since then through follow-up surveys. The results are published in the March 2007 issue of the journal Prevention Science.
One in five teen girls in the scan who ad hoc developing physically earlier than their peers reported having a considerate classmate who was older, compared to special one in 25 males who matured. There were not enough boys with older girlfriends in the examine to allow researchers to draw any conclusions about whether older partners increased the boys' danger for engaging in risky behaviors. However, having a romantic partner of any age increased the likelihood of risk behavior for both boys and girls.
More than 40 percent of the youth in the look at reported having no attentive partners, and additional than 36 percent of girls and 47 percent of boys had attentive string of the resembling age or younger.
Halpern said this look into should be a understanding for parents.
"Parents of all teenagers have a trial for conversation
to their heirs and guiding them whereas
solicitous relationships and the risks of drug use," lassie said. "But this speculate shows that parents of girls who reach puberty ahead of the peers and who have an older boyfriend should take a special interest."
The revolve was supported by a remit from the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
Other authors of the deal with are: Christine Kaestle, assistant professor of human increasing at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, who recently avowed her Ph.D. from UNC School of Public Health; and Denise Dion Hallfors, extreme prospect scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Chapel Hill.
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