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My Story: 16 and Pregnant

Sarah Roberts | Posted 05.16.2012

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Sarah Roberts

Sixteen and pregnant. It wasn't exactly the dream I'd had while I was in my junior year of high school. I dreamt of moving away to college and living in a dorm. But when I got the news that I was pregnant, everything changed.

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Young Women Have Gotten Smarter About Sex

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.04.2012

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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 ...

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Let's Immunize Boys Against HPV and Educate Them About Sexual Responsibility at the Same Time

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

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Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

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.

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David Lohr

Teen Accused Of Storing Tons Of Her Sexual Images On School Computer

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.30.2012

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Pennsylvania police have filed charges against a high school student who allegedly had hundreds of sexual images of herself on her school-issued lapto...

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Teen Sex Study Shows Surprising Effect Of Sex Education

Posted 03.12.2012

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/08/2012 01:56 PM EST on LiveScience Teens who receive formal sex education wait lo...

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Awkward: Teen Calls Cops On Mom For Having Sex

Posted 01.25.2012

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Parents, here's another reason to keep those lovemaking noises down to a minimum: Your teen might call the cops on you. A 15-year-old Florida girl ...

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WATCH: Teen Safe Sex Series Uses Terms Like 'Raw-Dogging'

Posted 01.05.2012

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Don't know what "raw-dogging" is? Neither did we. Thanks to "More Than Just Sex" however, we will never forget. The new series of video PSAs, made...

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Parents, Teens and Sex: An Ongoing Conversation

Laura Stepp | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Sex, Teenage Sex, Teens, Amy Schalet, Contraception, Teen Birth Rate, Birth Rate, Parents, Teen Sex Education, Teen Sex, Parents News
Laura Stepp

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.

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Research Finds That Fewer Teens Are Having Sex

NYTimes.com | Nicholas Bakalar | Posted 11.18.2011

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About 43 percent of unmarried teenage girls and 42 percent of unmarried teenage boys have had sexual intercourse at least once, according to new resea...

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Surprising Things We Can Learn From The Dutch About Sex Education

healthland.time.com | Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Parents-Teens, Amy Schalet, The Sex Talk, Holland, Teen Pregnancy, Safe Sex, Teen-Abortion, Teen Sex, Sex Education, High School News

Teen birth rates are eight times higher in the U.S. than in Holland. Abortion rates are twice as high. The American AIDS rate is three times greater t...

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Glee Teens "Lose It" With Love: Why The Controversy?

Amy Schalet | Posted 01.12.2012

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Amy Schalet

Why did it takes us so long to arrive at a positive media portrayal of first sexual experiences -- planned, protected yet ignited by romantic passion? And why has the Glee episode sparked such a controversy?

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Can Sex On "Glee" Be Good For Teens?

Time.com | Posted 01.11.2012

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On Tuesday night, one of television's most recognizable gay characters, Kurt on Glee, lost his virginity. In doing so, he taught a lot of teens about ...

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Did You Watch Last Night's Controversial Episode of Glee?

Posted 01.09.2012

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Did you catch last night's episode of Glee? If so, you know the reason it's causing such a stir -- the episode depicts two teen couples, one gay and o...

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Don't Be Spooked By Sex Education

Haydee Morales | Posted 01.02.2012

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Haydee Morales

Halloween has passed, and with it all of the goblins, and ghosts and other things intended to leave us frightened. Or have they?

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Please, Under My Roof...

Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D. | Posted 01.01.2012

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Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D.

My son Enrique was 14. He had come out at school and had been speed-dating middle school boys that fall. "Dating" mostly meant texting or going to a movie. The turnover of boyfriends seemed innocent... but Tom was different.

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Teens Using Condoms More Often, But Not Consistently

yourlife.usatoday.com | Posted 12.12.2011

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Sexually active teens are using condoms more often, but inconsistently, finds a federal survey released today that asked its largest-ever sample of te...

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The "Soup of Casual Sex" or "Why the Kids Are Alright"

James Peron | Posted 11.06.2011

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James Peron

Conservatives may lament the state of youth culture today, but compared to many of their generation, I have to say that the kids are alright.

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Teen's Vengeful Facebook Bullying Turns Into Sentence For 'Child Pornography'

Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Social Media, Youth, Australia, Cyberbullying, Bullying, Teens, Australian Schools, Sharon Chanon Velazquez, Juvenile Justice, Teen Bullying, Teen Sex, Juvenile Detention, Facebook, Phoebe Prince, Education News

A 17-year-old boy in Perth, Australia has been sentenced to 12 months in juvenile detention for pressuring underage girls to perform sexual acts on a ...

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Study: Increasing Numbers of Parents Are Allowing Teens To Have Sex At Home

ParentDish | Posted 08.24.2011

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"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...

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The Surprising Place Teens Get Sex Advice From

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.15.2011

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It's widely held that teens look to their friends or celebs when sussing out their sexual identity, but a new Canadian study suggests they are actuall...

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Jason Linkins

Hey! Let's Listen To The 'Morning Joe' Crew Have An Awkward Conversation About Sex And The Youth

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Friday's Washington Post brings word of new findings on U.S. sexual behavior in the form of the National Survey of Family Growth, with good news findi...

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5 New Things We All Need To Know About Today's Teenagers

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

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Delia Lloyd

As my children are but 10 and seven, the teen years and all of their related angst and drama still seem so far off. And yet, every time I open up a newspaper lately, I'm confronted with a new (and often disturbing) fact about teens.

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Teen Pregnancy Rates Highest In South

The Hill's Healthwatch | Mike Lillis | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, for instance, 2008 birth rates were less than 25 per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19, CDC found. I...

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Tyra Banks SUED Over Teen Sex Addicts Show

AP | KATE BRUMBACK | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — A Georgia woman is suing Tyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episo...

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Bristol Palin and Mike "The Situation": What Don't You Understand?

Neil Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dancing With the Stars, Politics, Jersey Shore, Mike the Situation, Teens, Candies Foundation, Teen Pregnancy, Safe Sex, Abstinence, Abstinence Education, Teen Sex, Pop Culture, Condoms, Bristol Palin, Teenagers, Media News
Neil Cole

What do you get when you combine the country's most visible proponent of abstinence, the most in-your-face seeker of casual sex, a pack of gold condom...

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