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Parental Ambivalence and Adolescent Sexuality

Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers. By Sinikka Elliott, New York, NYU Press, 2012. 216 pp. $22 (paperback). ISBN: 9780814722596

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    Laura M. Carpenter

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Carpenter, L.M. Parental Ambivalence and Adolescent Sexuality. Sex Roles 69, 112–114 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-013-0276-1

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