Sex and Your Teenager: A Parent's Guide

by John C. Coleman

As we all know, sexuality is not an easy topic for parents and carers to deal with once their children enter adolescence. We are all aware of the need to discuss sex with our kids, the only question is, how to start the conversation?

This practical, down-to-earth book offers tips on how to broach the subject and gives advice on a range of problems from the bodily changes at puberty through to coping with relationships, contraception and HIV.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471485624
• ISBN13: 9780471485629
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Sex and your teenager

This book is part of a new series on Family Matters introduced by Wiley to highlight common topics relevant to the 21st century family. John Coleman is a clinical psychologist with many years of clinical and academic experience at the Royal London Hospital. Since 1988 the director of the Trust for the Study of Adolescence in Brighton, where he has published widely on the subject of adolescence and in 2001 awarded the OBE for services to youth justice. This book is for parents or caregivers on the important topic of sex and sex education for our children today. It is devided into nine chapters: puberty, learning about sex, sexual development, first relationships, impact on family, risky behaviours, sexual orientation, the law and the role of the parent. Each chapter is well-written with "case stories" or comments by teenagers or parents and information on useful organisations, readings or websites. The style is short and informative and we believe this book can be a useful guide for many parents, but also teachers and even teenagers, who wants to take a peek.