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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] My 15 year old daughter is taking AP BC calc next year as a sophomore and is also sleeping with her boyfriend. These things are not mutually exclusive.[/quote]

You aren’t the cool mom you think you are. Other moms are not impressed that you are good with your high school freshman having sex or with your “parenting.”[/quote]

It’s completely normal for highschool teens in the U.S. and many other places to be sexually active. My husband and I were both 15 when we started having sex, often in the mornings before class and after school. We lived close to each other and spent a lot of time together, including sleepovers. What do parents expect highschool age couples to do—just hold hands? If your kid is in HS dating, they’re most certainly having sex. It’s gullible to believe they aren’t. We went separate ways for college and ended up getting married summer after senior year. I didn’t sleep with anyone else, but he had a few partners in college. We’ve now been together for over 30 years. I think freshman’s who are 14/newly 15, are too young but 16 and up is perfectly fine and healthy.[/quote]

This is so wrong. NO, all kids dating in HS are not having sex. I, too, started dating my husband in HS (age 16). We waited many years before we had sex. There’s a lot between holding hands and having sex (kissing, for example). The thing is, healthy sex requires emotional maturity (& ideally commitment) and the ability to handle unexpected outcomes, like an unplanned pregnancy. For example, no BC is 100% effective, and a boy will have zero say in what happens if the girl becomes pregnant.

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