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Interesting facts about Indian TeensIndian Today, March 2011

Secret Life of Indian Teens  The only time my parents banned Face book was when I wrote “widowed” as my status after I broke up with my BF. : MOU 15, Kolkata  Girls agree to do oral sex because boys want it … like, I should do this for my boyfriend, to prove my love : Soapy, 18, Delhi  Some boys carry condoms in their pockets because they don‟t know when they might get lucky : Radhika, 17, Chennai  I am going out with a guy who‟s dating six other girls. That‟s OK. I am also dating other guys. Mimi 15, Bangalore  We are not very different from American Kids, except they are more independent. Tembo, 13, Delhi  Porn is very common as it‟s available on the computer. Who is stopping you from Porn? Most boys access it everyday : Rahi 16, Mumbai  There are lots of junkies in school. But they don‟t disturb any one and keep to themselves : Neo 15, Delhi

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Baroda Lions Club Education Trust 2011 10 Things Teenagers Won’t Tell You:  30% are not comfortable taking to their parents about their own problems.  67% of all school students cheat in an exam, at least once.  45% teenage girls would prefer to terminate unwanted pregnancies without telling their parents  21% teenagers get unwanted demands for sexual activity from strangers on the Net.  1 out 0f 5 is smoking at an alarming rate of 13 to 15 sticks a day.  65% face persisting problems to which they see no solution.  1 in 2 teen necks and kisses.  1 in 5 teen watches porn before age 13  15% drink alcohol when they are bored  47 % play games on their mobile

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Baroda Lions Club Education Trust 2011 Things About Teens That Make Parents Mad:  Watching primetime reality shows that titillate. 76% do it.  48% contemplate suicide.  90% show extreme reluctance to go to school.  Rising demand for pocket money (My friend gets Rs. 20,000 a month)  85% teens think tuitions bring high scores.  90% teens believe in pre-marital sex.  Everybody has it. That‟s what 71% of teens say when asking for fancy frills MP3 to camera phones.  45% of Class XII students drinks alcohol 5 times a month  70% show mood swings and bed temper.  17 year is the average age of initiation into drugs in big cities.  80% of those visiting pubs and bars in metros are underage.  25 out of 100 teenage girls in a big city school are sexually active.  8 out of 10 schoolchildren are on social networking sites.

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Baroda Lions Club Education Trust 2011 Examination Phobia & Suicide by Indian Students  Suicides by students are on rise in India from 4.8 per cent of in 2008 to 5.3 per cent in 2009.  In real numbers 6, 761 students committed suicide in 2009 -10. The toll was 6060 in 2008  19 students commit suicide everyday in the country.  Six take their lives fearing failure in examinations.  77% of students committing suicide are between 15 - 29 years.  Suicide by students accounted for 5.3 percent of total suicides in 2009. It was 4.8 per cent in 2008.  148 students committed suicide in Delhi in 2009, the highest in a metro. Bangalore was second with 136 cases.  West Bengal with 870 and Maharashtra with 812 cases topped the list of suicides by students in 2009.  The Nation Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report confirms that 2,189 students (958 girls; 1231 boys) killed themselves in 2008 after failing in examination.

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Baroda Lions Club Education Trust 2011  Students are known to swallow memory pills and eat „brain food‟ in order to score well in examinations.  The number of suicide related to career problems which includes students fear of examinations, went up to 1354 in 2009 from 1, 176 in 2008.  Patna has emerged as a “suicide city” for 2009, with 23.8 per cent of total suicides in the city, were by students.  24 per cent of total suicides victims in Chandigarh in 2009 were students.  Allahabad & Kanpur followed closely with about 23 per cent of total suicides by students in 2009.  In Meerut 19.8 per cent of suicides in 2008 were committed by students.  In Lucknow the figure was 22.6 per cent in 2007 of total suicides.

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