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...talk is never easy. It's not comfortable for anyone involved - parents are afraid of it, children are mortified by it - which is probably why the talk so often comes after the fact. In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, researchers found that more than 40% of adolescents had had intercourse before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth control or sexually transmitted diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...incredibly difficult to broach the topic of sex, admits Soren, who has three children of her own. "Your kids look at you like you're crazy, and you feel like you want to run," she says. "But it's important because we know good parent-child interaction gives kids better resiliency later on in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

That difference highlights a primary problem in the parent-child dialogue about sex. "A lot of parents think they had a conversation, and the kids don't remember it at all," says Dr. Karen Soren, director of adolescent medicine at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. "Parents sometimes say things more vaguely because they are uncomfortable and they think they've addressed something, but the kids don't hear the topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...travel allowance is granted to “all [international] students receiving financial aid,” Donahue said, and “is included into the cost of attendance and deducted from the expected parent contribution...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena and Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: International Freshmen Get Travel Funds | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...excellent, yet what's needed is not merely a backlash but an evolution toward something better. I suggest that a solution might be found in remembering that children learn by example. Throughout history and across cultures, that seems to be the most succinct expression of what defines a good parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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