Medical Daily, June 17, 2015 04:54 PM
According to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Oregon, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, teens are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior due to differences in working memory.
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Why Isn’t Sex Education a Part of Common Core?
Pacific Standard, Feb 28, 2015
According to a recent poll, 44 percent of Americans believe that sex education is part of the Common Core curriculum. It’s not.
But why doesn’t the Common Core have a sex ed component?
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More Children Seek Help for Gender Dysphoria
MedicineNet, April 22, 2015
When Samantha was 3, she drew a picture of a family. She explained that she was the daddy. By age 5, she’d told her mother, “My mind tells me I’m a boy.”
Mom made a note to ask her pediatrician about it.
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Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality
Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality is an Australian, community-based project that supports young people, parents, schools, government and the community sector to understand and address the influence of pornography. The aim is to get people talking about pornography and its impact on young people, in order to: encourage young people and the broader community to...
Birth control practices vary by social class, study concludes
Science Daily, October 1, 2014
A new study of couples living together unmarried finds that the working class and the middle class have significantly different attitudes and approaches toward birth control, helping to explain why unwed births are far less common among the college-educated than their less-educated counterparts.
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Family Support Tied to Safer Sex for Young Gay Males: Study
Oct. 15, 2014
Young gay and bisexual males are less likely to engage in riskier sex if their families are supportive of the way they live, a small new study reveals.
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