After publication of this article, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clarified that the share of girls who said they had been forced to have sex was 13.5 percent. It had originally said 14 percent. It also revised the increase in this figure from 2019 to 2021, from 27 percent to 18 percent. This version of the article has been updated.
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Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma, CDC finds
Updated February 13, 2023 at 6:32 p.m. EST|Published February 13, 2023 at 12:07 p.m. EST