Words Can Work: When Talking With Kids About Sexual Health

In this book, young people and parents discuss puberty, values, relationships, birth control, and postponing sex. Experts, including former United States (US) Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., offer facts, strategies, and the words to help young people and families talk about these topics.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Girls and puberty
   
3. Boys and puberty
   
4. Talking about your family’s beliefs and values
5. Building trust with your child
   
6. What’s a period?
   
7. Talking about relationships
   
8. At what age is it O.K. to have sex?
   
9. Oral sex and teens
   
10. Sexually transmitted infections
    
11. Beginning to use birth control
    
12. Methods of birth control
    
13. Condoms
    
14. How to use a condom correctly
    
15. Living with HIV
    
16. When your child is gay