TITLE

How To Talk To Your Child About SEX

AUTHOR(S)

Wattleton, Faye; Keiffer, Elisabeth

PUB. DATE

March 1988

SOURCE

Ebony;Mar1988, Vol. 43 Issue 5, p60

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article offers tips on how parents should talk to children about sex. Sex education should not be regarded as a course in school. Instead, parents should realize that it is a process that starts in infancy and must be continued into adulthood. The occurrence of pregnancy in the family or in the neighborhood should also be taken by parents as an opportunity to talk about sex.

ACCESSION #

50608560

Tags: SEX education for children;  SEX education for teenagers;  SEX education for youth;  PARENT & child;  COMMUNICATION in families

 

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