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The Impact of Sex Education on Sexual Activity, Pregnancy, and Abortion

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The purpose of this study is to find a relation between sex education and abortion in the United States. Accordingly, multivariate logistic regression is employed to study the relation between abortion and frequency of sex, pre-marriage sex, and pregnancy by rape. The finding shows the odds of abortion among those who have had premarital sex, more frequent sex before marriage, and been the victim of rape is higher than those who have not experienced any of these incidents. The output identified with one unit increase in pre-marriage sex the log-odds of abortion increases by 0.47. Similarly, it shows by one unit increase in the frequency of sex, the log-odds of abortion increases by 0.39. Also, for every additional pregnancy by rape, there is an expectation of a 3.17 increase in the log-odds of abortion. The findings of this study also suggests abortion is associated with sex education. Despite previous findings, this study shows the factors of age, having children, and social standing is not considered a burden to parents and thereby do not have a causal relation to abortion.

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  • Nima Khodakarami, 2019. "The Impact of Sex Education on Sexual Activity, Pregnancy, and Abortion," Papers 1903.08307, arXiv.org.
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