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'From Diapers to Dating'

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In "Sexuality Education for Our Children from Diapers to Dating" Reverend Debra W. Haffner builds on her professional expertise as well as her personal experience as a mother of two teenage children to offer parents what they need to feel comfortable and competent in one of their most important roles -- giving their children a solid and wholesome sexual foundation.

See Reverend Haffner's bio.

Further Reading on Sexuality Education
  • "In fall 1997, the Franklin County, North Carolina, school board ordered chapters on sexual behavior, contraception and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) cut out of its health textbook for ninth graders. The deleted material, the board said, did not comply with a new state law requiring public schools to teach abstinence until marriage in their comprehensive health education program for students in kindergarten through ninth grade..." Read further a thought-provoking report from the Alan Guttmacher Institute about compromised sex education programs in our schools: School-Based Sexuality Education: The Issues and Challenges.
  • Human Sexuality — What Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It -->>Read further in a Planned Parenthood educational piece.
  • Books by Debra W. Haffner available at your favorite book store:
    • From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Health Children
    • From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Health Children – From Infancy to Middle School
    • Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Health Teens from Middle School to High School and Beyond
  • New CDC Data on Sexual Behavior Reinforces Need for Comprehensive and Medically Accurate Information and Education for All People Throughout Their Lifetime. -->>Read further in a special SIECUS report.

A Brief Bio of Rev. Debra W. Haffner

The Reverend Debra W. Haffner, the director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing and and former executive director of SIECUS, shares some excellent insights on providing children with age-appropriate sexuality education promoting good parent-child communication and healthy approach to adult life.

Reverend Haffner is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. Her lively and often witty books on sexuality education include...-->>Read further.

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