The FDA recently approved a new method of emergency contraception also called the morning after pill, Ella (ulipristal acetate). There will now be two methods on the market. Why a new pill? What makes this one so special may be found in how efficient the pills works, as many as five days after unprotected sex; [...]
You’re watching your teen discuss the new interest in their life. You’re struck by the perfection of the other person. You interject a question here and there and what is meant as a gentle reality check provokes shock and disagreement. You secretly hope they don’t get hurt since well, they don’t seem like as good [...]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn. This is Rihanna’s line in the Eminem song Love the way you lie. The lyrics and video are hard because the pain and the romance is uncensored, as it should be. If there were a way to have your body shut down when you’re in a relationship [...]
Constance McMillen if you don’t know lives in a very conservative part of Mississippi called Itawamba County. She wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. It seemed everyone else was taking someone they cared about, she thought she would too. Up until now prom and other things that used intimate relationships as a basis [...]
Your teen’s break-up from their first sexual experience is going to be very hard. Now break-ups are hard of course, but this will hold a unique place in their heart since they shared something special with this person they thought maybe they would love forever. Irrespective of your position on teen sexual activity, your teen [...]
When you think about it, getting the date, the dress, and sometimes a limo, can make prom have such a close resemblance to getting married that there’s no surprise that teens think of prom night as a kind of wedding night. No parent is going to get that call, “Mom, I was just calling to [...]
The comedian Dennis Miller has this joke, “Why hate you for being of a certain race, there are so many other reasons to hate you.” True in general we want to try and spread the love and not the hate, but he makes a good point about the heterogeneity or diversity within ethnic groups. The [...]
“It’s complicated” This is your teen’s response after you check in to ask how their recent relationship is going. “Hmph!” You think to yourself, “complicated?” What does that mean? So your teen goes through this meandering road of a story to explain that they sort of are, but sort of aren’t still dating. You think [...]
The work that goes into being a proud father to be is complicated and challenging at best. Since girls mature faster than boys and women usually get the family bug sooner than men, it is without a doubt a lot of work for many men to catch up to their wives when the decision [...]
There was a time when teens that were seriously dating got married after high school. They married their “high school sweetheart.” Promising to grow old with someone as a teen is quite a gamble, maybe not impossible, but it is a gamble that the person will share your interests when they are finally an adult. [...]
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