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With a comprehensive approach that goes beyond biology, this book explores the emotions and personal values that affect teens' sexual choices. It presents teachers with ways to encourage healthy talk about sensitive subjects, provides group activities designed to get teens thinking about their choices, and includes the latest information on safe sex, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, and abstinence. Helping create a safe place for adults and youth to talk about sex and sensitive topics, it gives ideas on how to work with parents and schools so everyone's values are respected, while teens still get the information they need. With topics that range from personal responsibility and values to media influences and teen pregnancy, this book's approach is abstinence-plus and is designed to integrate easily into any curriculum.

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Martha Roper has been a teacher for 40 years and has been named one of the top-10 U.S. sexuality educators. She has been featured in Parents magazine and USA Today and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and as a regular guest for 15 years on KMOX radio in St. Louis. A member of the groundbreaking National Sexuality Education Guidelines Task Force, she also was named the National Health Education Professional of the Year. She and her husband jointly received the Lifetime Professional Service Award from Planned Parenthood of the Greater St. Louis Area. She lives in Manchester, Missouri.

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