Canadian Teens Get Their Sexual Health Information at School, Says StatCan

Canadian teens get most of their sexual health information from school, a new Statistics Canada report has found. The report, entitled “Where do 15- to -17-year-olds in Canada get their sexual health information?” says 56 percent of adolescents identified school as the main source of information about sex. Most teens said they had more than one main source, mentioning parents or caregivers (51 percent), the Internet (46 percent), friends (36 percent), and health care professionals (21 percent). Statistics Canada researchers also found that 15 percent of teens said they didn’t have an adult to talk to about sexual health issues, while 3 percent of teens had no source of information....