The birds and the bees conversation is a tradition that generation after generation has followed, but research is showing that maybe it is time to retire this time honored routine. Traditionally, parents would sit their unsuspecting child down and explain the ins and outs and all the in betweens of sex and responsibility. More recently, parents have been relying on the school system to fill in the gaps that parents leave behind. The problem is most school systems teach abstinence based programs and most parents leave the sex talk to an isolated incidence when children of today need so much more.
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The 2000’s have been a sexual revolution, with more and more teens becoming sexually active earlier in life. While not a problem on its own (other countries have higher teen sex rates but lower teen pregnancy and STD rates) many US teens are not educated on the range of options out there. Many schools and sex education services rely on fear to keep teens from becoming ac...
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