Tag: family

Condom Week: Who can talk about it?

June 4, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne
Who has the right to talk with your child about sexuality? What about your teenager? Or your adult child? These are questions parents often start to grapple with far earlier than they realized that they would have to. A parent came to me once, very distraught, because her eight-year-old daughter…
Adolescent Sexuality Children Communication Contraception Family Conversations Parenting Social Media Teenagers Violence

Sexual harassment, consent, and hugging grandma

May 6, 2013 Dr. Karen Rayne
Yesterday in my middle school class we talked about sexual harassment. The students had a general notion of these as bad things, but little in the way of details. The problem is generally that people misconstrue sexual harassment with sexual assault. They don’t realize that harassment can be verbal, can…
Adolescent Development Consent Family Parenting Sex Education Sexual Harassment