Girls want to learn how to say no to sex and still say yes to intimacy. Girls say they need the tools to learn how to say no and how to negotiate emotionally charged relationships. They are torn between a traditional view of femininity and the contemporary realities of being a woman, girls report. We are encouraged to be assertive by TV, magazines, and some adults, but we're punished indirectly by the world when we do. The report also finds that many girls point their fingers at the media for promoting a very narrow, restrictive image of women and girls as skinny, sexually alluring, and popular to the exclusion of more important attributes and values.
Girls fault educators for generally ignoring social pressures that girls face every day in school.
It finds that several research studies show that certain characteristics exist in all families whose children find success, and that they are present across all ethnic groups. Parenting style was found to be significantly related to adolescent outcomes in multiple domains including externalizing and internalizing behaviors, academic achievement, work potential, sexual experience and pregnancy history. Furthermore, a significant difference was not found between Authoritative and Authoritarian parenting. The study is available in word, word perfect or pdf formats. Bayer Corporation and the National Science Foundation recently asked more than 1,000 of the nation's Ph.