One minute I'm cleaning up Legos with my 3-year-old daughter. The next minute I'm conducting an impromptu anatomy lesson and desperately hoping not to flub it.
By Katherine Ozment May 5, 2009
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Bristol Palin's ex talked about sex and family on "The Tyra Banks Show." It infuriated Sarah Palin -- and made me want to watch.
By Rebecca Traister
April 7, 2009
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The actress discusses "Green Porno," the online series in which she has sex (yes, sex) with bugs and barnacles.
By Katie Rolnick
April 1, 2009
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If you think the answer involves "abstinence-only education," you're on to something.
By Nancy Goldstein
March 19, 2009
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In a Fox interview, the new teen mother makes an almost unwitting argument for reproductive choice before Mom barges in and twists her words.
By Rebecca Traister
February 18, 2009
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"I'd like to be your gay friend!"
By Katharine Mieszkowski
October 16, 2008
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This family-friendly event features teenagers with fake bellies and signs reading, "Sluts missed sex ed."
By Tracy Clark-Flory
July 9, 2008
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The media is apoplectic about the knocked-up Gloucester girls, but as a former teen mother, I think there was some wisdom in their plan.
By Amy Benfer
June 27, 2008
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Hey, you know what's elitist? Scientific training and research, apparently.
By Alex Koppelman
April 24, 2008
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On issues like abortion and sex education, the candidate is neither as moderate nor as principled as some might think.
By Joe Conason
April 11, 2008
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As Congress considers boosting budget for abstinence-only education, a record number of states are rejecting funds.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
December 18, 2007
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Does the first daughter's position on safe sex conflict with her dad's abstinence-only views?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
September 25, 2007
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Hint: It isn't abstinence-only education.
By Julia Dahl
July 18, 2007
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The federal government pushes for sex ed while conservatives oppose it.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
July 16, 2007
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A new bill could give a multimillion-dollar boost to abstinence-only education.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
June 14, 2007
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Lawmakers plan to bid farewell to the Title V program because it has proved ineffective in reducing teen pregnancies.
By Carol Lloyd
May 17, 2007
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Or do all Americans, regardless of where they came from, need to address their issues with sex ed?
By Catherine Price
May 8, 2007
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School board reconsiders effectiveness of high school's sex-ed program.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 17, 2006
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A new study finds that unintended pregnanicies are rising among low-income women.
By Lori Leibovich
June 26, 2006
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Seventh-grade girls petition for comprehensive sex ed at their school in the South Bronx, N.Y.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
June 21, 2006
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Yet another survey shows that teens need real-life sex ed.
By Lynn Harris
June 7, 2006
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In the decades between World War II and Roe v. Wade, 1.5 million young women were secretly sent to homes for unwed mothers and coerced into giving their babies up for adoption. Now their stories are finally being told.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
May 11, 2006
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Our church group teaches the facts of life to 13-year-olds. One of us goes way over the line.
By Cary Tennis
April 26, 2006
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The Ministry of Unknown Science explains the differences between boys and girls.
By H.H.
February 3, 2006
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The White House is pouring money into programs that tell teens to just say no to sex. Most experts say the programs don't work -- except to enrich the religious right.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 24, 2004
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