Report: Teens In Committed Relationships Commit Less Crime

[The Straight Story]

Report: Teens In Committed Relationships Commit Less Crime

DAVIS, CA - New research from the UC Davis Sociology department indicates that teens could be well-served to invest in committed dating relationships.

According to two years of data analysis by Dr. Bill McCarthy, teens who engage in a dating relationship where romantic feelings are involved are 21 percent less likely to commit crime.

Those romantic interactions involve things like holding hands, meeting one another's parents, going out alone, kissing, and speaking of themselves as a couple.

"Kids who are involved in emotionally close dating relationships have less criminal involvement, less substance abuse, compared to kids who are in relationships which don't have that closeness," said McCarthy.

"There's a tendency to think adolescents can't have close, intimate relationships. And if they do, that they won't be very meaningful. Our research suggests maybe that's not the case."

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=53681&catid=2

[Renew Deal]

1. Does that include statutory rape?

:shrug:

[DCKit]

2. Duh. Too damn busy making out, talking on the phone, hanging and texting.

Obviously the maroons who did this study never had a date in HS.

[madinmaryland]

4. They probably wasted several million dollars trying to figure out

what is obvious!

Morans!!!

[YOY]

3. Putting myself back in the mind of highschool YOY...

"Would I rather be stealing CDs and smoking week or making out with a steady girlfriend..."

Well obviously the latter but YOY wasn't batting any until college so it was usually the former... :evilgrin:

Shit, I'd rather be doing the latter now.

[nichomachus]

5. Well, as long as they don't

touch each other -- you know -- "down there."

But my experience has been if you put two kids close enough together over a long enough period of time, they are going to touch each other "down there."

[coffeenap]

6. My teen has been in a committed relationship for over a year.

She and I are very close and I KNOW it has kept them both from experimenting with things that get experimented with as a replacement for the intimacy that teens, like all humans, need.