Relationship advisors agree that it is not good to be having sexual relationships at a very young age. Ideally, young people really need to rethink their desire to be sexually active underage.

Is the desire for young sex due to pressure from friends, social networks and the belief that everyone else is doing it? Are young people maturing more quickly, and feeling a need to be intimate at an increasingly early age?

Links Between Teenage Sex, Alcohol Abuse and Depression

Or, is it more to do with the teenage craving to belong and to be loved, as the close-knit family succumbs to mounting work pressures, leaving many teens feeling less heard and less valued by their own family groups? Indeed, many teenagers who have sex at an early stage show low self-esteem, and there are often parallels with alcohol abuse and depression.