Additional Resources

The Alan Guttmacher Institute

Tools for Parents from Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Sexuality Education Council of the United States

Family Communication

Talk with Your Kids

Get Real About Teen Pregnancy

American Social Health Association's Parent's Guide

Recommended by the PPGG Chaplain:

  • From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children -- from Infancy to Middle School, by Debra Haffner. New York: Newmarket Press, 2000. 
  • Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens -- from Middle School to High School, and Beyond, by Debra Haffner. New York: Newmarket Press, 2002. 
  • Before They Ask - Talking About Sex From A Christian Perspective: A Guide for Parents of Children from Birth Through Age Twelve, by Don and Rhoda Preston. Nashville, TN: United Methodist Publishing House/Cokesbury, 1989. 
  • Talking with Your Child About...Sexuality, by R. Kenneth Ostermiller. Cleveland: United Church Press, 1990.
  • Love Shouldn’t Hurt - from Shalom Bayit in Oakland, CA.  http://www.love-shouldnt-hurt.org/  
  • The Role of Religious Congregations in Fostering Adolescent Sexual Health, from The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: http://www.rcrc.org/pdf/Role_of_Congregations.pdf

For more information on our parenting workshops or to request literature on parenting and family communication, please  e-mail us.

Parents: if you have a question or concern about how to have effective conversations with your children about sexuality,  send an email  to a health educator.


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