An Unconventional Gap Year
Children gain an enormous amount by being exposed to other family units. Living in another culture, which is what each family is, is enlightening, challenging, scary and often fun.
Children gain an enormous amount by being exposed to other family units. Living in another culture, which is what each family is, is enlightening, challenging, scary and often fun.
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.
AP | By CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 12.12.2011
CHICAGO -- A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful si...
The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.15.2011
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...
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011
ATLANTA — A growing number of teen girls say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it's OK for an unmarried fe...
ABC News | CLAIRE SHIPMAN and COLE KAZDIN | Posted 05.25.2011
They don't give their names, but viewers can see their faces plainly and what these teens are saying is shocking parents. "I ended up having sex with...
Cindy Handler | Posted 05.25.2011
To right-wing ideologues, the debate begins and ends with the sinful act of sex outside of marriage, which can lead to only one outcome: punishment.
Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
Our inability as a society to be clear about morality and sex these days, with adults increasingly seemingly incapable of holding the line about what is right and wrong in an age dominated by relativism means that often kids do not get clear enough boundaries.
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.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011
The Daily Show broadened the Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair photo hullabaloo story on Tuesday night's show, and did a segment on teen sex. Jon and the corres...
Nina Lorez Collins | Posted 04.11.2012