October is National Family Sexuality Education Month, so this column is devoted to parents and some-day parents.
I was once talking about sex education programs with a sixteen-year-old girl and her mother when the girl happily said, “My mom’s my best friend. We share everything.” But moments later, when her mom said she had sex for the first time “at a very young age” and the experience was “lovely and experimental,” her daughter’s face registered shock.
