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Sexually transmitted diseases among teens has become a full blown epidemic a national emergency that’s killing our kids. In this groundbreaking book Dr.Meeker uncovers the story of this serious epidemic and the pattern o… More >>
Your Kids at Risk: How Teen Sex Threatens Our Sons and Daughters
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I have read Meeker’s book, and find it totally devoid of factual information or a sex-positive approach. It is the same old “just say no” approach, which is never going to click with today’s teenagers. Like Josh McDowell and Pam Stenzel, she is irresponsible in not telling the truth about sex. Forget her.
Rating: 1 / 5
Horrible racist author(Meg Meeker)who is homophobic. Why read this book when you can just talk to your kids? Im a teenager (16)and i would rather my parents talk to me than read this horrible trash. This woman has some serious issues, “if you give teens condoms then you dont care about them” is just one of many things she says witch is not true. Be open with your kids provide them a safe and secure place where they feel they can talk freely. Teens have hormones, things happen, would’nt you want your kid to be protected? yes STD’s are out there but so are condoms help keep ure kids safe talk to them they will listen.
Rating: 1 / 5
While the author makes some valid points about sexual health and the importance of taking STIs seriously, deep down this is just repackaged Dobson.
It is published by the “leading conservative publisher on policy issues” and should be read more as a tract on conservative sexual values than a medical guide. She, like all conservatives, bemoans the 60s yet again and is convinced that waiting and secondary virginty are the answers to all that ails teenagers.
There are much better books, without the conservative slant, to be had on this important and complex issue.
Rating: 1 / 5
I agree with other reviewers about Meeker’s many fallacies in this book, as well as a few other problems:
She completely contradicts herself throughout the book… Way too many to list…She also repeatedly makes blatant homophobic comments, and attempts to defend it at one point with a completely unrelated retort. She puts words in several diffrent peoples’ mouth, in one part, claiming people who give their teens condoms don’t care about them, and she acts as if every parent that does this doesn’t even talk to their teens about sex.
It is common sense that you spend more time talking to your child and giving them self confidence, and never shy-away from sex discussions, and even sometimes insist on these discussions… my mother did ALL of this, and I still had sex way too young! It is human nature, some teens are going to have sex no matter what the parent(s) do. This does not mean you should not try at all to make them see that they should wait, which is what Meeker conveys people do if they give their teens condoms. It is so ironic too that she is so attacking to such parents when she directly states that she gives up on her teen patients after six months if they continue to have sex. She tells them they have to find another doctor!!!! She is one of the biggest contributors to the problems that she spends her book preaching about!
Meeker has good intentions, and has valid arguments that teenagers get the wrong idea from television and magazines, and how they portray the role of men and women in such instances, but her approach and her writing in general is extremely sensationalized.
Her approaches as a medical doctor scare me just as much.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have not read this book. I feel that this is an important subject that should be covered; I disagree with several of the statistics presented in the book description.
In 1960 there were significantly more than two STDs. Outside of AIDS, I can’t think of any STD that came into existence after 1960. I could be wrong about AIDS being the only one, but I know there were more than two.
There is a little trickery with the HPV statistics as well. While it is true that “99%” of all cervical neoplasms are caused by HPV (although most studies put this number closer to 80%), it is not the other way around; e.g. an HPV infection does not cause cancer in 99% of all infected women, as implied by the description. With an estimated 25 million people in the US infected with HPV, 1 million new cases per year, and approximately 14,000 neoplasms diagnosed per year, the numbers come out to less than 1% of those infected with HPV developing cancer.
I don’t mean to detract from this book (even the statistics above, 25 million infections, etc., are sobering). The message is good and one that should be heeded; it is, however, more effective to be truthful with the statistics. The truth here is scary enough.
Rating: 3 / 5