Research published by Cardiff University found that children in foster care in Wales are significantly more likely to report ever having had sexual intercourse, and to report an earlier age of intercourse.
At last intercourse, they were also three times more likely to report not using a condom and significantly less likely to have used the contraceptive pill.
A higher proportion of young people in foster care also admitted to having sent a sexually explicit image of themselves, or having a sexually explicit image of themselves forwarded without their consent, compared with young people who had other types of living arrangements.
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