s.e. smith

If you’re caring for a young person, then the question of when and how to have “the talk” with them has likely crossed your mind.

Dr. Karen Rayne has spent a decade supporting parents and young adults with well-researched, thoughtful discussion of sex and sexuality.

What can you do to stay connected without becoming the main component of your teen’s social life, and how do you support teens going through breakups?

The safer sex drawer normalizes safer sex, and ensures young people in your life have access to supplies they need.

Parents and adults are often quick to dismiss teen media, even when they haven’t personally read or viewed it. That offhand dismissal undermines young people.

Gender stereotyping is not just everybody’s problem, it’s a problem for everybody, and that includes for men.

Some of our favorite resources for parents to help them do their best with sex, gender, consent and sexuality in their parenting.

If you take nothing else away from Scarleteen Confidential, we feel these five things are the real guiding principles when it comes to parenting well.

Young people sometimes feel uncomfortable talking with parents and guardians about contraception.

In this series we pass on our insight including what we observe and learn from working with young people to parents, guardians and other supportive adults.