Questions for pregnant or parenting teens:

• Why do teens in your state get pregnant?
• Did any of you want to get pregnant?
• What has been the hardest thing about being pregnant/a teen parent?
• What were yourand your boyfriend's (girlfriend's) attitudes towards contraception?
• Do you think if you knew everything about the consequences of sex that you would have had sex?
• What's the one thing that you would like for all of us to know to help teens avoid pregnancy?
• How important has your faith community been to you at this time?
• Tell us one thing you love about your baby.

Questions for non-pregnant and non-parenting teens:

• On a day-to-day basis, are you concerned about sex and pregnancy or are they low on your list of worries? Please explain.
• Do you and your friends think contraception is protection?
• When you and your friends talk about birth control, do you talk about abstinence?
• If you are sexually active, how did you and your partner decide to use birth control? Did you talk about it?
• Whose responsibility is it to protect against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases?
• Many people think it is important to be a virgin until marriage. Do you agree? What does it really mean today to be a virgin?

Questions for all teens:

• Lots of parents today tell their kids not to have sex, but many of these parents were sexually active (and unmarried) when they were young. Does this "double standard" bother you? Or is the world so different now that parents are right to be strict?
• Kids are sometimes asked if they've ever "had sex" or if they are "sexually active?" What do these phrases mean to kids today? What is your definition of what "having sex" means?
• Is sex just "another thing to do" like playing basketball or hanging out at the mall? Some kids tell us sex has very little meaning. What do you think?
• One guy wrote us to say that the only reason he had sex was because there was nothing better to do. What are your thoughts about that?
• We all know that "sex sells." What we want to know is: does the sex you see on TV, read about in magazines, or hear in music influence you to buy certain things? Does it make you more interested in sex itself?
• Are girls more sexually aggressive than they used to be?
• Please react to the following phrase: "Parents are their children's first and best sex educators."
• What do you like and don't like when your parents talk with you about sex?
• When it comes to decisions about sex, what influence do teens have on each other? Who influences you the most among your friends and acquaintances, aside from your boyfriend or girlfriend?
• Do your siblings influence your decisions about sex, dating, and relationships?