Teenagers and sleepovers

[lph]

His position was that statistically speaking the majority of teens are sexually active by the age of 16 whether you want them to be or not and you can either be an ally and help them stay safe or they are just going to do it anyway without your input.

I think he's probably quite right. A sleepover can of course also be just that, an occasion to sleep over and chat. But I'm a little concerned that it could also be felt as some kind of pressure or implicit encouragement to move things along. I know that as a teenager myself I was anxious to show how mature I "really" was, at an age when I was nothing of the sort.

[TrekDianna]

As a lesbian, opposite sex sleepovers would have been no big deal for my parents to handle