PARENTS, TEENS TO DISCUSS LOOMING DANGER OF STDS GROUP HELPS ADULTS ADDRESS SEX ISSUES.Byline: Daily News SAUGUS - Teen sex and the risk of sexually transmitted infections will be the topic at Tuesday night's meeting of Action, a support group for parents and teenagers. Guest speaker Judy Belty, executive director of ATEAM ATEAM Advanced Turbine Engine Army Maintenance , a local community sex education program for teens, will speak at 7 p.m. at Saugus High School Saugus High School may refer to:
``Most parents tell me the hardest talk they have with their teens is the sex talk and discussing their own personal sexual values with their teens,'' said Belty. ``In the '60s and '70s, there were two or three identifiable STDs. Today there are over 30 STDs, and in many teen minds if they are not having intercourse INTERCOURSE. Communication; commerce; connexion by reciprocal dealings between persons or nations, as by interchange of commodities, treaties, contracts, or letters. they are not subject to getting those diseases.'' STDs can, in fact, be spread orally. Often there are no symptoms, so the consequences of their earlier teen sexual activity might not show up for years. Those attending the meeting will learn how to talk with their teenagers about sex. Parents will learn to set the boundaries they want to set for their teens while leaning how to discuss what the pressures of teen dating are and how to resist those pressures. ``We want to help empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems parents with the tools to talk to their teens about sex and teen high-risk behavior high-risk behavior Public health A lifestyle activity that places a person at ↑ risk of suffering a particular condition. See Safe sex practices. with regard to sex,'' Belty said. ``Hopefully, we are all talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to our children from the day they are born about the tough issues of life.'' Action is a gathering of parents who meet to offer each other support and practical solutions to problems. A parent who has been trained as a group facilitator, who has experienced just how tough it is to raise a teenager in this day and age, leads each group. The program is structured very differently from most parent support groups. While parents are meeting, teens attend a group of their own. For information, call the Action hotline at 1-800-For-Teens or (661) 297-4660. The Action support program is nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. . IF YOU GO Action, a parent and teenager support group, will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the ZT bungalows in the student parking lot at Saugus High School, 21900 Centurion Way. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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