This detailed, exhaustively documented account shows how and why just about everyone in today's teen pregnancy debate is wrong―often disastrously so.• Dozens of cases of original research findings from standard statistical sources that have not been presented in other works• A chronology documents the teenage sex and pregnancy controversy as it has occurred over the past century• Discusses in detail many popular images and fears, including internet predators, "hooking up," "sexting," and media-driven teen sexuality