When Good Kids Have Sex

Sex is a primal drive, the life force’s way to guarantee the species survival. Sex should also be a comfort, a healthy way to release tension, and the bonding glue for loving relationships. Sadly and throughout time, sex has also been a source of pain and a weapon. In today’s world it is used to sell almost anything you can name. Finally, diverse cultural, religious, and parental beliefs create mixed messages. No wonder parents shiver with anxiety at the thought of their kids making their way into sexual adulthood.

The fact that external and inner sexual pressures emerge at the precise time children begin rejecting parental advice, makes parenting on the subject of sex a challenge. What can a parent do?

Katherine Gordy Levine offers tips and suggestions for enforcing your values in a society that sends confusing mixed messages to teens and even to pre-teens about sexual behavior. She also details her personal rules for what she calls responsible sex. Finally, she shows you how to best combat all the other messages.

Katherine is not only a licensed therapist, former professor, and director of mental health crisis teams, she and her husband have cared for over three hundred foster children, mostly teens and each in trouble with the law. Her suggestions are both clinically sound, but also based on practical experience. She knows what works and what does not work. Moreover, she is on the side of all parents.