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Dating and Sex
Questions:
- Our 16-year-old daughter had sex with a 20-year-old boy. What should we do?
- My daughter keeps coming home with bruises and I'm worried her new boyfriend may be responsible. What should I do?
- I suspect my 13-year-old daughter may be sexually active? What should I do?
- A dating jealousy has arisen between my twin daughters -- what should I do?
- My 15-year-old has become sexually involved with a boy who is sexually promiscuous and uses drugs. What shall I do?
- My 15-year-old has become sexually involved with a boy who is sexually promiscuous and uses drugs. What shall I do?
- My 13-year-old son is preoccupied with sex and is looking for porn on the internet. He purchased condoms in a mall men's room just to try them but says he is not sexually active. Is this normal behavior or should I be concerned?
- Our 15-year-old daughter can't seem to stop following her urges and lying to avoid consequences. Is this normal teenage behavior?
- How do we open our daughter's eyes to the social criticism of interracial dating and guide her toward other possibilities?
- I don't want my 14-year-old to get pregnant and get lost under the responsibility that goes with it. How can I get that through her thick head?
- How can I convince my daughter to take my advice about her distrusting boyfriend?
- My 14-year-old daughter is experiencing her "first love," is getting way too involved and is starting to ignore her friends and other aspects of her life. What do we do?
- I am concerned my daughter won't attend college because she will have to leave her boyfriend. What should I do?
- What should I do with my teen son who is obsessed with his girlfriend? I fear he is violent toward her.
- My 15-year-old daughter admitted that her boyfriend has been coming over for several weeks while we are at work and that they have been having sex. Do you have any advice?
- My 17-year-old son is overboard in love with a girl who is extremely manipulative. What can I do?
- I snooped and read my 16-year-old daughter's journal. Is it normal for me to feel so guilty? Now she can't trust me. Will I ever get that back?
- My 17-year-old daughter is down in the dumps because I will not let her date a 21-year-old guy. Am I wrong? She says age doesn't matter.
- Am I being over protective? Should I let my 18-year-old daughter stay overnight when she visits her 23-year-old boyfriend?
- My daughter's boyfriend has been diagnosed with leukemia. I think that with or without the illness, the relationship is becoming too much of an obsession. Am I right?
- I overheard my son and his friends using very derogatory terms to describe certain girls. Should I talk to him about it?
- Is it OK for me to come right out and ask my 16-year-old if he is having sex?
- My son may have forced himself on a young woman. How do I guide him?
- How do I talk to my 9-year-old about Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy?


