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

Canadian Teens Get Their Sexual Health Information at School, Says StatCan
Students arrive at a high school in Dartmouth, N.S., on Sept. 8, 2020. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
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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).