Researchers: ‘Promiscuity Can Be Predicted At Nine’

From The Australian
By Tamara McLean

SEXUALLY risky and promiscuous behaviour in teenagers can be predicted in children as young as nine, new research shows.

A study which tracked children for the first 16 years of life has found a clear link between aggressive and delinquent behaviour in children and adolescents who have frequent, unprotected sex.

“It seems you can predict very early on, as young as nine, if children are more likely to become risky and promiscuous sexually as young teenagers,” said Australian researcher Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck from Griffith University.