While you can still encourage your son or daughter to abstain from sexual activity, your goals might now expand to avoiding pregnancy, disease or emotional issues. Teens want parental guidance, but they want parents to be realistic as well. It is a difficult line for parents to walk. It is tempting, but forbidding sexual activity can backfire. After teens are already engaged in sexual activity, it is even less likely to be effective.
Most teens do go through some type of rebellious period.
While she hasn't come out and addressed her findings with him yet, she has stepped up efforts to talk about the issue. I feel that I have left the door of communication open and that my son knows he is welcome to walk in whenever he needs or wants to. As a former teen mother herself, Carla recognizes the need for communication. When it is something as serious as sexual relations, it needs to be approached with openness and honesty not ridicule and threats. Some variables in teenage sex are not directly related to sex at all.