Parents play an important role in helping children make healthy decisions about their future. Now more than ever, children are relying on their parents to share the insight and experience that will help them navigate the pressures associated with growing up.
This section includes information to help you start and maintain conversation with your kids. You can discover what kids are thinking these days; learn how to be a parent that kids want to talk to; and how to help your kids resist the pressures to engage in high risk behaviors.
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HHS ANNOUNCES NEW COMMUNICATION TOOLS TO HELP PARENTS TALK TO THEIR TEENS ABOUT ABSTINENCE
This new communication
tool includes the 4parents.gov website as well as
Parents, Speak Up and Teen Chat guidebooks. The 4parents.gov
website
promotes abstinence from multiple risk behaviors, including
early sexual activity.
In addition, the website provides medically accurate information
about a variety of health topics. Some features of
the 4parents.gov website include interactive tools, statistics
and conversation starters.
http://www.4parents.gov
The
National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy: With One Voice
2007 America's Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy;
An Annual National Survey by Bill Albert, February 2007
Parents
are more powerful than they think. Over two decades
of good social science research - and the National Campaign's
own polling over the years - make clear that when it comes
to teens' decisions about sex, parents are more influential
than they think. Simply put, teens say their parents influence
their decisions to have sex more than anyone else.
For the first time in National Campaign polling, adults
in general now believe that parents most influence teens'
decisions about sex. Parents of teens, however, continue
to underestimate the influence they have over their children's
decisions about sex and overestimate the influence of friends
and the media.
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