Your Kids at Risk
How Teen Sex Threatens Our Sons and Daughters
Published on 20. November 2012
252 pages
978-1-62157-075-2 (ISBN)
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Sexually transmitted diseases among teens has become a full blown epidemic a national emergency that's killing our kids. In this groundbreaking book Dr. Meeker uncovers the story of this serious epidemic and the pattern of political correctness and marketing hype that has caused this tidal wave of disease.
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06/2007
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MEG MEEKER, M.D., author of the bestseller Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, has spent more than three decades practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine and counseling teens and parents. A fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, she serves on the Advisory Board of the Medical Institute and is an associate professor of medicine at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Dr. Meeker lives and works in northern Michigan, where she shares a medical practice with her husband, Walter.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I - The Epidemic Is Here
- ONE - Lori, Alex, Holly
- LORI'S STORY
- ALEX'S STORY
- HOLLY'S STORY
- TWO - The Epidemic Is Real
- THE EPIDEMIC DEFINED
- LIFELONG, LIFE-THREATENING
- STDS DON'T DISCRIMINATE
- LIKE A MATCH TO GASOLINE
- BREAKING THE SILENCE
- THREE - The Explosion from Two to Twenty-five
- SICK FOR LIFE
- HPV: GROUND ZERO
- HERPES: THE RECURRING DREAD
- HIV AND AIDS
- HEPATITIS B
- MORE STROKES
- FOUR - Curable but Dangerous
- CHLAMYDIA
- GONORRHEA: BACK WITH A VENGEANCE
- SYPHILIS INCOGNITO
- TRICHOMONIASIS: HIV'S LITTLE HELPER
- BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
- MY PATIENTS ARE YOUR CHILDREN
- FIVE - The Emotional STD
- SKYROCKETING RATES
- SEX AND DEPRESSION
- THE SPECIAL LOSS OF DIVORCE
- THE TRIUMVIRATE OF DEPRESSION
- UNCOVERING DEPRESSION IN TEENS
- PART II - The Forces at Work
- SIX - Birth Control Is Not Disease Control
- MY STORY
- THE SUCCESS OF BIRTH CONTROL
- TOOLS FOR PROTECTION
- THE DOCTORS' DILEMMA
- SEVEN - Condoms and the Myth of Safe Sex
- TALKING TERMS
- THE REAL DEAL ON CONDOMS
- SEX, LIES, AND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
- CONDOMS VERSUS THE STDS
- WHAT TEENS FEAR MOST
- CONDOMS AND TEENAGERS: AN UNHEALTHY MIX
- SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE
- EIGHT - Media and the World Our Kids See
- PARENTS: EXHAUSTED AND DISCOURAGED
- TEENS: SOAKING IT UP LIKE A SPONGE
- SEX IS BIG
- SEXUALITY IS THE LARGEST DIMENSION OF A PERSON'S PERSONALITY
- COOL PEOPLE ARE PROMISCUOUS
- SO WHAT ARE PARENTS TO DO?
- KEEP YOUR STANDARDS HIGHER THAN HOLLYWOOD'S
- NINE - High-Risk Sex
- WHY IT'S HAPPENING
- ORAL SEX: A CRAZE WITH CONSEQUENCES
- ORAL SEX IS NO PROTECTION
- HOMOSEXUAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY
- MORE IS NOT BETTER: MULTIPLE PARTNERS
- CAN I WATCH? VOYEURISM
- EVERYTHING BUT SEX . . .
- A DANGEROUS MIXTURE: SEX, DRUGS, AND ALCOHOL
- CYBERSEX
- GOOD SEX/BAD SEX
- PART III - What To Know, What To Do
- TEN - Adolescent in Body and Mind
- WHEN PUBERTY STRIKES
- STDS AND THE ADOLESCENT GIRL'S BODY
- WHEN BOYS REACH PUBERTY
- SEX AND SEXUALITY
- ELEVEN - Connectedness
- OUR TEENAGERS WANT CONNECTEDNESS WITH US
- DEVELOPING GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR TEENS
- CONNECTING THROUGH COMMUNICATION
- CONNECTING THROUGH INTIMACY
- CONNECTING THROUGH LOVE
- CONNECTING THROUGH APPRECIATION
- PARENTAL DISAPPROVAL OF SEX
- TWELVE - Holding Off
- TEACHING KIDS TO POSTPONE SEX
- AMBIVALENCE IS PERMISSION
- IT'S NEVER TOO LATE
- IN CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright Page
