Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex and Character

A practical guide to assist parents in discussing sex with their children furnishes helpful advice on how parents can clarify their own values, provides creative tools to enhance communication, and offers tips on how to deal with such vital issues as safety, peer pressure, ethics, the dangers of the Internet, and more. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is past president of the Society for the Study of Sexuality and a charter member of the International Academy of Sex Research. She has authored or co-authored twelve books, writes several magazine and web columns, and also appears on Lifetime Television. She lives in Washington State with her husband and two teenage children.

Dominic Cappello is a nationally recognized designer of parent-child communication programs and the creator of the National Education Association's "Can We Talk?" Parent Education Programs. He is a policy advocate on school violence and harassment prevention and the author of Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children About Violence. He lives in New York City.