Prom Night
Prom: a rite of passage! Arguably the most important dance in high school and a night full of memories for parents and teens. I remember my senior prom, my parents made my friends and I line up in...
View ArticleA March-December Marriage
I found out this morning that Douglas Hutchison, a 51-year-old actor from Lost and the movie The Green Mile has married Courtney Stoddard, a 16-year-old “recording artist, singer/songwriter, actress,...
View ArticleTeen Dating Violence
Dating violence is something no parent or family would want for their teen. Deciding when a teen should be allowed to date is tough enough. Thoughts going through a parent’s mind may include worries...
View ArticleTeen Dating and Teen Drinking
Many parents fearfully await their teen showing interest in dating, worrying about everything from broken hearts to sexually transmitted diseases. A recent study in the American Sociological Review...
View ArticleTeen Girls, boyfriends, money, and sex
A recent news story caught my eye. It described the findings of a research study that linked teen girls, boyfriends, and sex. The study found that teen girls who relied on their boyfriends as the main...
View ArticleParenting Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Teens, Part 4: Dating- Sleepovers &...
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual teens are just like heterosexual teens in that they will get crushes, probably date, and hopefully learn a little about themselves in the process. They will discover more...
View ArticleParenting Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teenagers, Part 4: Dating- Promoting...
I was going to only have one post on dating, but there’s so much to cover. Welcome to Part 2 of Part 4! This post is kind of a catch-all for some other common questions parents have when their LGB teen...
View ArticleTeens and Sexual Assault, Part 3: The Age of Consent
At some point, most teens end up dating someone who is a little older or younger than them. But when that age gap widens, teens can be putting themselves or their partner in danger of legal (and...
View ArticlePreparing Your Teen for College: long distance relationship or break up
As summer is getting into full swing, those teens who graduated from high school may be preparing to go off to college. For many of the teens I work with, moving means leaving behind friends, family,...
View ArticleHelping Your Teen Handle a Breakup
The breakup of a romantic relationship is almost always hard. Even as adults, we might mourn, weep, question our worth, and wonder if we’ll ever be happy again. The Holmes and Rahe stress scale (for...
View ArticleCan Sports be used to help prevent dating violence
One of the questions I ask every teen I meet is whether or not they’re in any kind of intimate relationship. Much of the time the answer is ‘yes’ or ‘I have been.’ My follow up question is usually...
View ArticleTeen Girls and the Normalization of Sexual Violence
An article was recently published in the journal Gender & Society that is enlightening, sad, and for me, brought back memories. The researchers interviewed a hundred adolescent girls referred for...
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Intimate Partner Violence
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. Dating violence goes by a number of different terms: intimate partner violence (IPV) or dating violence. It’s described as ‘physical, sexual, or...
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