R&L Education
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978-1-60709-018-2 • eBook • July 2009 • $46.55 • (£36.00)
R. Murray Thomas is professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of several books, including Violence in America's Schools and God in the Classroom.
Chapter 1 Decisions about Sex in School
Chapter 2 The Course of Sexual Development
Chapter 3 Erotic Acts and Protective Measures
Chapter 4 Cases: Breaching Schools' Eroticism Rules
Chapter 5 Eroticism Gone Awry 1 ? Abuse
Chapter 6 Eroticism Gone Awry 2 ? Pregnancy
Chapter 7 Eroticism Gone Awry 3 ? Infection
Chapter 8 Gender Traits and Role Preferences
Chapter 9 Sex Education Programs
Chapter 10 Retrospect and Prospect
Impeccably researched and presents an abundance of essential information, statistics, and analysis of teen sexual behavior.....
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The book is a useful introductory compendium encompassing the sexual world of the American teenager. Recommended.....
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This book is an overview of issues facing schools related to the sexuality of children....An advantage of this book is that it spends more time analyzing issues than didactically urging particular points of view....A worthwhile contribution to the literature. This is a topic that generates a great deal of emotion on both sides, and so any book that helps us to start a reasonable debate should be welcome....
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Sex and the American Teenager by R. Murray Thomas is a comprehensive look at the questions and problem with which teenagers, parents and school administrators are grappling as they make decisions about sex. Why are these students behaving the way they do? How do they make decisions on whether or not to have sex. Should schools teach sex education? If so what should they teach and does it matter. What are the influencers of these teenagers as they are making these decisions. Thomas's book takes you through the sexual development of children and uses cases examples to look at the various problems that schools and parents are dealing with in relationship to sex. This book would be helpful to school administrators and teachers and parents working to understand how teenagers develop and what influences their sexual behavior and what policies are appropriate to enact..
— Jacquie Slade