Reducing poverty and teen pregnancies are not mutually exclusive goals. We should be looking for more solutions that do both.
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.04.2012
ATLANTA -- More teen girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says. About 60 percent of teen girls who have sex use the ...
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 06.02.2012
So what does the research tell us? We need to talk to both young women and men, not once but early and often about sexual health and responsibility.
Posted 03.16.2012
A Massachusetts school has taken its first step toward giving students as young as 12 free access to condoms at school. The Springfield School Comm...
Laura Stepp | Posted 01.22.2012
When Dutch teens think they're ready to have sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend, their parents, some of them reluctantly, encourage the couple to do so at home. These situations, while novel to me, were treated with indifference by Western Europeans.
ParentDish | Posted 08.24.2011
"If you think for one minute I am going to let you go out tonight just so you can have sex, you have another think coming, young lady! You are going t...
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 08.16.2011
Even in this more enlightened age, I well remember an exchange I had with a fellow mother when my son was in middle school. The conversation came around to sex and she asked how I approached that red-hot topic with my son.
Doree Lewak | Posted 05.25.2011
Slippery problems plague sex ed classes across the country, screwing high school health teachers yet again -- and not in a way they'd hoped for. The f...
Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011
Before the age of 20, 52% of Latina teens become pregnant at least once. At almost twice the national average, Latinas have the highest teen pregnancy and birth rates of any major ethnic group in the United States.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.25.2011
Knowing how to orgasm is important for anyone of sexual maturity who hopes to enjoy a sexually fulfilling life.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011
At the Mississippi Department of Human Services' summit, "Abstinence Works: Let's Talk About It," we didn't talk about abstinence, but we sure did chant, cheer, dance, pray and sing about it.
Neil Cole | Posted 11.17.2011
Whether we, as Americans can agree on safe sex vs. abstinence is not the issue here; the issue is educating teens about pregnancy prevention.
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011
Teenagers in a Berkshire town will soon get access to a card which they can use to get free condoms if they go for regular sex advice sessions. The C...
Abigail Jones | Posted 11.17.2011
Normandy High School officials should have come out strongly, advocating openness, pushing sex education, and acknowledging the problems and pressures of teenage life.
Scott Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011
In trying to "Swift Boat" Obama on comprehensive, age-appropriate, sex ed, the abstinence-only crowd is, in reality, just trying to rally the narrow social conservative base for McCain.
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 11.17.2011
Dear Dr. Belisa, A friend of mine from college just got married and went from being a great basketball buddy to being annoying as hell. He says "my w...
Laura Stepp | Posted 05.22.2012