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Peer Pressure Statistics

Peer pressure is becoming a bigger threat for teens and adolescents, and is more dangerous than parents would have imagined. The statistics of peer pressure is very scary for any parent to know in the United States of America. Adolescence and teenage have became frightening ages from the parents' point of view. You hear more children taking the law into their hands, school shootouts by kids, drug abuse, alcoholism and smoking.



Here are some facts and statistics on peer pressure.

Maryland reports that teenagers who are around 13 years are most susceptible, and also succeed in trying alcohol. Nearly 355 of the kids would have taken alcohol at least once by that age. The state also reports that nearly two-thirds of the population of adolescents buy and drink their own alcohol.

The usage of marijuana has increased by 275 percent from the early nineties to the late nineties according to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. The percentage of teens consuming marijuana is nearly 9.5 percent today. That is one in every 12 kids is having a joint somewhere. Nearly 30 percent of children in middle school are exposed to drugs and the same are being sold to them.

Nearly 25 percent of teens in their 17s or 18s smoke everyday. There are nearly 3.1 million teenagers in the United States who smoke.

Almost 50 percent of the teens in the age group of 12 to 17 have tried having a sexual relationship. Nearly 4 million kids in this age group suffer from sexually transmitted disease or infections every year. The rate of abortions in the 17 and 18 age groups is also very high. The number of underage mothers is also very high.

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