Statistics Of Today About 1/3 of 12th graders in the U.S. get drunk at least once every 2 weeks. Over 50% of fifteen- to nineteen-year-old girls and 60% of boys the same age have had sexual intercourse, and about 1/3 of U.S. births today are to unwed mothers. A recent survey of over 1,000 U.S. high school students found that 2/3 of them would lie to achieve a business objective, and a higher percentage reported that they would inflate their business-expense reports to escape paying income tax. Twenty percent of U.S. high school students recently admitted to carrying a deadly weapon to school. On an average day in the United States, 13 children commit a murder.
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