Communicating with Teens about Sex: Facts, Findings, and Suggestions (continued)

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Footnotes

1. This document is FCS2251, one of a series of the Family Youth and Community Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date: October 2006. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2. Kate Fogarty, assistant professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611.