Posts Tagged ‘Birth Control’

Thinkin’ About Birth Control? (2012-1-10)

You can’t burst into the room and blurt out, “What do you know about birth control? You don’t need it anyway and finish your H.W.!” Yep, I think another tactic is in order.
Parents often struggle with the thought of bringing up the “sex talk” or anything related with sex or babies or sexuality…you get my [...]

Who Makes The Decision About Birth Control? (2011-2-3)

You discover your teen has become sexually active so you make an appointment to see the doctor for birth control and sexually transmitted disease screening. When you learn about all the methods, you with your adult brain says one method is ideal while your teen wants to see if she can remember to take the [...]

The 4.0 Student Said What? (2010-9-23)

A teen was asked, if she was sexually active and if so was she on birth control? Her response was that she was sexually active and had been for the past few months. She was not going to go on birth control because her Mom was really on her and she did not want [...]

Wedding, I Mean Prom Night (2010-6-3)

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 [...]

Abortion Debate Falls Short for Teens (2009-6-3)

How do we give the option of prevention before the consequence of pregnancy that should be one of happiness and not worry and stress?

Should Young Women Trust Young Men to Use Condoms and Male Birth Control? (2009-5-25)

Every few years, as though to tease us, science and the media get together to put out an article on the possibility of a male form of the birth control. This time there has been a study published that is significant in that it has the largest number of men and has followed these men [...]