http://www.healthdame.com/2009/08/teens-getting-sex-disinfo-on-the-web-what-to-do/ Empowering Patients in the New Health 2.0 Era Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.healthdame.com/2009/08/teens-getting-sex-disinfo-on-the-web-what-to-do/comment-page-1/#comment-119 admin Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:38:03 +0000 http://www.healthdame.com/?p=462#comment-119 Good for you Trish. There are so many things parents should talk to their kids about, but this is one of the ones with the greatest consequences. Good for you Trish. There are so many things parents should talk to their kids about, but this is one of the ones with the greatest consequences.

]]> http://www.healthdame.com/2009/08/teens-getting-sex-disinfo-on-the-web-what-to-do/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Trish Wilkinson Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:57:45 +0000 http://www.healthdame.com/?p=462#comment-118 Great post. Neither of my gorgeous teenage girls, 15 and 17, are sexually active. If parents weren't so squeamish or religious righteous with their heads in the sand, we wouldn't be having such a problem in this country. The funny thing is, a lot of the parents whose kids are getting pregnant were having sex in high school. Why is it so hard to talk about the emotional consequences of having sex too soon and all of the reasons WAITING is actually need fulfilling for THEM? Great post. Neither of my gorgeous teenage girls, 15 and 17, are sexually active. If parents weren’t so squeamish or religious righteous with their heads in the sand, we wouldn’t be having such a problem in this country. The funny thing is, a lot of the parents whose kids are getting pregnant were having sex in high school. Why is it so hard to talk about the emotional consequences of having sex too soon and all of the reasons WAITING is actually need fulfilling for THEM?

]]> http://www.healthdame.com/2009/08/teens-getting-sex-disinfo-on-the-web-what-to-do/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Trish Wilkinson Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:47:01 +0000 http://www.healthdame.com/?p=462#comment-117 This is an incredibly helpful post. I have two teenage daughters, so I will pass on this information to them. My question is why aren't parents talking to their kids about sex? Last week, my older daughter, high school senior, told me she thinks the reason she's still a virgin is because my husband and I don't make sex taboo in our family. We're open, we joke about it, and we talk about the emotional aspects of sex. One of her friends told me she resents her parents for just handing her condoms and telling her not to get pregnant. They didn't talk to her about why it would be a good idea to wait to have sex because physical relationships have lots of consequences besides pregnancy. She suffered a lot of heartache, with different partners, between the ages 15 and 18 before she really figured it out. Are parents really that squeamish? This is an incredibly helpful post. I have two teenage daughters, so I will pass on this information to them. My question is why aren’t parents talking to their kids about sex? Last week, my older daughter, high school senior, told me she thinks the reason she’s still a virgin is because my husband and I don’t make sex taboo in our family. We’re open, we joke about it, and we talk about the emotional aspects of sex. One of her friends told me she resents her parents for just handing her condoms and telling her not to get pregnant. They didn’t talk to her about why it would be a good idea to wait to have sex because physical relationships have lots of consequences besides pregnancy. She suffered a lot of heartache, with different partners, between the ages 15 and 18 before she really figured it out.
Are parents really that squeamish?

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