Research published in the Lancet Series on Adolescent Health suggests that British teenagers are among the world’s worst for binge drinking and underage sex. In a league table of 40 mostly high-income countries, England had the fourth highest percentage of young people who have been drunk by the age of 13, with Wales fifth and Scotland eighth. Britain also had the third highest rate of sexual activity among 13 to 15-year-old girls in the study of 17 Western European nations, with 32 per cent saying they were sexually active. The two studies used figures for 2006, the most recent year of international comparable data. The research suggest that the wellbeing of teenagers has improved far less over the past 50 years than that of children under 10.
You can read the research here: http://www.thelancet.com/series/adolescent-health-2012
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