average age of loss of virginity today?

[sheson-fire.livejournal.com]

ok...so i looked through the memories and found only what i had found on my own quick research...i just want someone to tell me im not crazy.
i could have sworn that in the past year..at the most... i read in the newspaper as well as hearing about it on radio talk shows..that the average age u.s. kids lose their virginity now is 12..
im having a debate about it with my husband..because all we can find is articles with no links to studies or surveys saying its around 16...
I KNOW I READ SOMEWHERE THAT IT WAS 12..
but i guess maybe its not...
anyone have any links that show like legit numbers...or at least have heard this number too?
thanks!

Comments

[altheia.livejournal.com]

The youngest in my part of the world is 12 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/5082650.stm
There was a better article about it, but I cant find it.
Apparently her mother was proud of her, she smokes 20 a day, and drinks on the weekends (even when she was pregnant).

[altheia.livejournal.com]

Found it!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/4764417.stm
Much more detail.

[kaelstra.livejournal.com]

The eleven year old smokes 20 cigarettes a day, got pregnant at eleven, and the mom is proud of her?

Wow.