![]() ![]() "What is so fascinating to me is 90 percent of the mothers, our readers, thought that they had had the conversation with their daughters about sex," says Gayle King, O magazine's editor-at-large. ![]() : See the results of this groundbreaking study The bottom line? Parents aren't talking to their kids enough about sex. O, The Oprah Magazine and Seventeen magazine joined forces for a groundbreaking new sex study that surveys moms and girls ages 15 to 22. "You want to start these conversations early with your kids - before they find themselves in the circumstances where they're having to make those healthy sexual decisions." What you need to do as a parent, Berman says, is arm them with knowledge that will guide them well into adulthood. In fact, Berman says children are being forced to make sexual decisions by middle school, from receiving sexually explicit text messages - also called "sexting" - to feeling pressured to perform acts like oral sex. Berman says kids today know a lot more about sex than we think they do. ![]()
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