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Article: When we talk about sex and teens, can't we use words besides `no'?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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I didn't think they'd take it this far. I didn't think the
Clintons would apply the "don't ask, don't tell" policy to their own
family.
But in a bemused moment, the first lady and mother recently
offered up the sort of sex advice that strikes a chord with parents
of teen-agers everywhere. "My theory," she said, "is don't do it
before you're 21, and then don't tell me about it."
It appears that Bill and Hillary are going through their second
adolescence: Chelsea's. And it isn't easier the second time around.
Laugh all you want at Hillary's advice -- I did. But weren't we
the generation that was going to handle this sex thing differently
than our own parents? Weren't we going to be open? ...