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Twenge & Park (2017) analyzed seven large, nationally representative surveys of U.S. adolescents 1976–2016 (N=8.44 million, ages 13–19) finding that dating behavior as a whole is on the decline. In fact, numerous "adult" like behaviors were found to be on the decline: dating, having sex, having a driver's license, trying alcohol, and working for pay all declined very significantly over the decades studied. | |||
They noted these effects were broad-based and not due to extra time students were spending on other activities like homework, volunteering, and extracurriculars. Although the Internet might have accelerated changes, these changes were noted to have started even before the Internet was popularized, so this was not the sole issue. | |||
Primarily, they suggest that adolescents delay adult behaviors when: there are fewer siblings (causing higher parental investment per child), parents have more money to invest in their children, there are no threatening diseases in the community, and expectations for a college education are high. | |||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''Figures:'''</span> | |||
[[File:Dating-trend-in-US-high-school-students.png|500px|thumb|none|Trend of dating in US high school students over time]] | [[File:Dating-trend-in-US-high-school-students.png|500px|thumb|none|Trend of dating in US high school students over time]] | ||
Graph pending. | Graph pending. | ||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''Quotes:'''</span> | |||
* ''The decline in adult activities appears across all groups regardless of gender, race, SES, region, or urban/rural location, suggesting a broad-based shift over time [and] does not appear to be due to time spent on student work such as homework, volunteering, and extracurriculars.'' | |||
* ''Internet use has changed more, with 12th graders in the early 2010s spending 11 hours a week online. However, many of the declines in adult activities began before the Internet became widely used. Thus, Internet use does not appear to be the sole cause of the decline in adult activities, though it may play a role in the changes between the mid-2000s and mid-2010s.'' | |||
* ''Fewer adolescents engaged in adult activities when the childhood environment included lower family size, higher median household income, higher life expectancy, and low pathogen prevalence, and when the adolescent environment featured low teen birthrates, a higher mean age at first birth, and higher college enrollment. '' | |||
* ''An economically rich social context with higher parental investment in fewer children, greater life expectancy, fewer dangers from pathogens, and the expectation of tertiary education and later reproduction has produced a generation of young people who are taking on the responsibilities and pleasures of adulthood later than their predecessors.'' | |||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> | ||
* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.12930 | * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.12930 | ||
* http://cds.web.unc.edu/files/2017/09/Twenge_et_al-2017-Child_Development.pdf | |||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Age of first sex is rising in USA for both genders</span>=== | ===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Age of first sex is rising in USA for both genders</span>=== | ||