1.0Red Lettershttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/redlettersTom Davishttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/redletters/author/tdavisSwazi girls with no education are 4X more likely to have sex before age 18 - Red Lettersrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="SW5BMMuJrD"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/redletters/2010/02/sacredfund2.html">Swazi girls with no education are 4X more likely to have sex before age 18</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/redletters/2010/02/sacredfund2.html/embed#?secret=SW5BMMuJrD" width="600" height="338" title="“Swazi girls with no education are 4X more likely to have sex before age 18” — Red Letters" data-secret="SW5BMMuJrD" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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It's all in the headline today. According to data provided by UNAIDS, the longer a girl in Swaziland stays in school, the less likely she is to have sex before age 18. How likely? Girls who make it to university or "tertiary" education have less than 20% likelihood of having their first sexual encounter before…