This advice can help you to engage your teens in open, honest and helpful dialogues about sex and sexuality.
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Teen boys who date adult women tend to experience their relationships differently than girls who date older men.
An increase in the adolescent pregnancy rate strongly suggests challenges with accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare services for this vulnerable age group.
Local research is particularly needed to assess existing policies and inform efforts to implement them better.
Melissa Kang answered hundreds of questions from girls for the Dolly Doctor column. What she found on analysis was a sense of shame when young women experienced sexual pleasure.
The proposed bill demonstrates the political will to address these preventable and avoidable morbidities and deaths.
“Never Have I Ever” is a fresh, fun and poignant addition to television’s repertoire of coming-of-age stories, especially for stories of Indian teenage girls.
Understanding the drivers of early childbearing in specific contexts is important for effective policy making.
Just as Prime Minister Morrison does not want others to impose their values on his kids, he should not impose his on others by limiting sex and sexuality education to what he deems acceptable.
When after-school clubs aren’t properly monitored, they can become risky spaces.
Blocking porn for under-18s will only make things worse for young people left without adequate sex education.
At a time when a new national school curriculum is starting its pilot phase in Kenya, a study shows the massive gaps in sexuality education programmes.
Sex education in American classrooms tends to focus on physical acts, disease and pregnancy. It provides little support to teenage boys for their need for emotional intimacy.
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Engagement Project, UMass Amherst
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PhD Candidate in Law and Sexuality, University of Sunderland
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Senior Lecturer, Demography and Population Studies, Schools of Social Sciences and Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Monash University
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Research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Policy research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems, South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
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Research/M&E Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University of South Africa
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Lagos
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis