Not My Kid : : What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers / / Sinikka Elliott.

Teenagers have sex. While almost all parents understand that many teenagers are sexually active, there is a paradox in many parents’ thinking: they insist their own teen children are not sexual, but characterize their children’s peers as sexually-driven and hypersexual. Rather than accuse parents of...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Sex Panics
  • 2. The Asexual Teen
  • 3. Negotiating the Erotic
  • 4. The Hypersexual Teen
  • 5. Other Teens
  • 6. Anxious Monitoring
  • 7. Uncertainty in Parents’ Sexual Lessons
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Methods Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author