Today’s Clean-Cut Teens: Less Sex, Less Drugs - The Daily Beast

Today’s Clean-Cut Teens: Less Sex, Less Drugs - The Daily Beast: I was thus pleased—but not surprised—to see that the current generation of American adolescents has been making better health-care decisions for themselves than any previous cohort since the Centers for Disease Control started collecting data. According to a massive new report on trends in health statistics recently released by the CDC and handily summarized by Vox, teenagers are less likely to do drugs, have unprotected sex, or (according to the Guttmacher Institute) get pregnant today than adolescents in previous decades.