Volume 15, No. 1, September 2002

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This issue of Transitions encourages parents to talk with their children and teens about sexuality and sexual health issues. It includes advice from sex education experts and a parent's take on that advice, a fact sheet about the importance of parent-child communication, charts on pre-teens' and teens' growth and development, tips for talking with teens about contraception, tips for health care providers, and results of a teen survey regarding talking with parents about sex. The issue also includes a full-color poster and a guide to resources for parents.

To read this special issue of Transitions, visit Advocates for Youth's Parents' Sex Ed Center. Parents don't have to go it alone. Advocates for Youth is here to help parents start—and keep going—on those important discussions about sex!

Transitions (ISSN 1097-1254) © 2002, is a quarterly publication of Advocates for Youth—Helping young people make safe and responsible decisions about sex. For permission to reprint, contact Transitions' editor at 202.419.3420.

Editor: Sue Alford