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References used for this fact sheet
- Talk to your children about sex and relationships: support for parents, National Children’s Bureau UK. More information here.
- Talking sex with teens, Child and Youth Health. More information here.
- Feldman, SS & Rosenthal, DA, Factors influencing parents’ and adolescents’ evaluations of parents as sex communicators, Stanford University and La Trobe University.
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