Parents ought not be afraid to talk to their children early and often about sex, love and relationships, and to be as specific as they are comfortable being.

What (parents) do and say matters a lot when it comes to teens' decisions about sex. It's not just peers and popular culture that are steering the ship.

For parents, I think these data show that conversations about sex need to be both broader and more specific. For healthcare providers, the implication is that we have to do a better job in getting messages to teens about the potential health risks of oral sex.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

They play this game of blaming the parents. Conversion therapy primarily focuses on supposed dysfunctional relationships with same-sex parents.

Parents have to be clear about their own sexual attitudes.