LifeSiteNews.com Life, Family and Culture News

Email: "PARENTS DISCOVERING LACK OF AWARENESS OF TEEN SEX INFLUENCES"

Your Email:

Your Name:

Send To Email:

Subject:

Message:
States are looking at ways to increase parental awareness of teen "reproductive health" BY LifeSiteNews.com MINNEAPOLIS, March 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Many U.S. parents are discovering for the first time how little they are told by schools and health officials about the sexual influences on their own children.  Two thirds of parents are unaware that their own teenage children can give consent for sexually transmitted disease treatment. Nearly half do not know their children can obtain contraception without any knowledge on the part of their parents. And 71% of parents said they would not object to mandatory parental notification with a five-day waiting period before teens could get access to contraception.  The findings are from a survey conducted in Minnesota and Wisconsin and presented this week at the Society for Adolescent Medicine in Seattle. “Many parents are uninformed about what their kid can and cannot do,” said Dr. Michael Resnick of the University of Minnesota.  Under the Bush administration, a growing number of states have been looking at ways to increase parental awareness of teen “reproductive health” by limiting minors’ access to so-called “confidential” services, Resnick says. The alternative, of course, is to leave teens to their own devices and to the designs of adults who take advantage of teens’ and parents’ lack of awareness.  For newswire coverage:  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=2&u=/nm/20030321/hl_nm/sex_teenagers_dc http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/parents-discovering-lack-of-awareness-of-teen-sex-influences/

Please enter the word you see in the image below: