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Pick Your Pain: Facing Your Fears About the Talk

Harvest USA shares some tips on facing your fears around talking with your kids about sex. Read the full article here.

The New Report on Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Church Is Proof of an Ongoing Crisis

A new report has been released about sexual abuse cases in the Southern Baptist Church.  Read the full article here.

With issues like this occurring within the church, your kids will likely hear about this from their peers. How do you talk through brokenness not only outside but also inside the church with your kids?

Faking It: How Selfie Dysmorphia Is Driving People To Seek Surgery

Elle Hunt shares the new trend of individuals seeking plastic surgery so they look more like their filtered snapchat selfies. Read the full article here.

Effects Of Teenage Motherhood May Last Multiple Generations

The grandchildren of adolescent mothers have lower school readiness scores than their peers. Read the article here.

4 Key Strategies for Parenting Children in Using Technology

Harvest USA shares some tips around parenting children that are using technology. Read the full article here.

Finding Freedom, Now A Mother

Alyssa Bethke shares the challenges of struggling with body image issues in motherhood. Read the full article here.

Teens’ Same-Gender Friendships Key To Later Satisfaction In Romantic Relationships

At age 13, adolescents’ abilities to establish positive expectations of relationships with their peers and to be appropriately assertive with peers were the best predictors of future romantic satisfaction. Read the article here.

Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work For Sex Addiction

FreedomU talks resolutions, sexual struggles, and what it takes to truly experience change. Read the full article here.

From #MeToo To ‘Safe Sexting’: How Far We Have Not Come

Cynthia Allen from Star Telegram shares observations around the cultural view of abstinence-only sex education, the #metoo movement, and “safe sexting.” Read the full article here.

Kraft Heinz’s Devour Advertises On Pornhub As Part of Super Bowl Campaign

At a time when many marketers obsess about appearing only in uncontroversial “brand-safe” environments, Kraft Heinz Co.’s Devour frozen food brand ran ads on pornography website Pornhub on Monday, part of a campaign built around a Super Bowl commercial with a food porn theme. Read the article here.

Watching the World Grapple With a Virgin ‘Bachelor’

The current season of “The Bachelor” features a suitor who is a virgin. Relevant Magazine shares the interesting cultural observations that appear with this season’s twist. Read the full article here.

Nearly 2% Of High School Youth Identify As Trans – And More Than 1/3 Of Them Have Attempted Suicide

New findings published in the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reveal nearly 2 percent of high schoolers in America identify as transgender, and approximately 35 percent have attempted to end their life sometime in the last 12 months. Read the article here.

How to Protect Your Kids in an Online World

Craig Gross from XXXChurch shares some practical ways to protect your kids in an online world with easy access to pornography and other explicit content. Read the full article here.

Teen Shows Like Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ Can Get Wildly Explicit. But Should They?

What’s different about “Sex Ed” as opposed to, say, “Orange is the New Black,” is that the new series is aimed at teenagers as well as adults. Read the article here.

Penn State Updates Course On Drinking And Sexual Violence, Aiming To Keep Students ‘Safe & Aware’

Penn State recently revamped its online course for incoming freshmen. Students learn about alcohol safety and sexual violence. Read the article here.

Six Dangers to Teach Your Kids About Porn

Harvest USA shares six important dangers to communicate to your kids about pornography. Read the full article here.

Do Young People Feel Pressured To Have Sex?

So does being surrounded by mates, social media and TV shows discussing sex “all the time” make it harder to control when your first time is? Read full article here.

Teen Birth Control Use Up, But Unwanted Pregnancy Remains High

Today’s teens are better at using birth control when they first become sexually active, but many unexpected pregnancies still occur, new research finds. Read the article here.

Graphic Pornography Is Making Teen Boys ‘Impotent’

Teenage boys as young as 16 are experiencing symptoms of erectile dysfunction due to excessively viewing violent and hardcore pornography, an expert has revealed. Read the article here.

How Teens Get Tricked, Coerced, And Trafficked Into Doing Porn

Fight The New Drug shares some eye-opening facts about how teens get tricked into doing porn. Read the full article here.