Blog entry #6 Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late

Title: Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late

  Researchers found out that 40% of adolecents had had intercourse befor talking with their parents about safe sex, birth control, or sexually transmitted diseases. Reasearchers studied 141 families in the Talking Parents Healthy, Healthy Teens Program. Parents and their children responded to questions about 24 issues regarding sex and sexuality. By the end of each study more than half of the parents had not discussed 14 of the 24 sex-related topics. This highlights a problem in the parent dialouge about sex. It could be extreamly hard to talk about it, the talks should occur ealier than they do. 

Reflection-

     I thought that this was very interesting because for me i have never ever ever had that talk, and im hoping i don't. Its really crazy to know that 40% of teens already have had intercourse befor their parents talked to them about sex. If that happens a lot that just proves that parents have to start talking about this at a young age. Because sometimes it could be way to late to talk about it. Teens might sometimes know more than their own parents in things.