I Want My Daughters To Have Better Sex Ed Than I Did

8 hours agoAs a nurse, I've always based the answers to questions my kids ask around science. The bleeding on their scraped knee stops because their platelets come to the scene and clog things up. Cancer, they know, is when cells start dividing when they shouldn't. They've listened to their lungs and heart with my stethoscope, and they know what happens when a person dies: Sometimes the lungs stop working first, and other times it's the heart.

So one day, after months of prayer, I decided I was probably pregnant. It felt worth mentioning to my parents, who, after the confusion cleared, realized it was time to tell me how babies are actually made. It was a real shock, let me tell ya, to learn my parents had done this thing, at that point,I was in that awkward stage of life where everything was embarrassing.

So I explained how exactly a pregnancy comes about to them, at ages 6 and 8. And boy, were they surprised. “WHAT?!” my youngest yelled, "you did that... TWICE?!" Ah, yes, that question again. At least I didn’t have to admit to eight times. I think each family will have a different “right time” for these conversations to begin, or for how in-depth the explanations go. And parents may have their own history of sexual trauma:over 50% of women and one-third of men are victims of contact sexual violence which may play into their ease/discomfort of broaching these topics.

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