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Which of the following statements does NOT describe adolescents' sexual experience?
 
  a) Nearly half of young teens do not believe oral sex is as big a deal as intercourse and they do not see it as spoiling virginity.
  b) By the end of high school, about two-thirds of young men and women have had intercourse.
  c) About 750,000 U.S. women under age 20 become pregnant each year, resulting in about 435,000 births.
  d) Teenage mothers are more likely to die in childbirth than are older mothers, and their infants are more likely to be of low birth weight and die within the first month of life.
  e) Teenage birthrates have been slowly rising since 1990

Question 2

The mating gradient suggests that
 
  A) high school and college senior women have the largest pool of eligible dating partners.
  B) women seek out lower status men and men seek out higher status women.
  C) intermarriage is more frequent than intramarriage.
  D) none of the above applies to the mating gradient.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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