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RQ's on Family

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Q Reading Questions on Family Schalet 1. What are the contrasting attitudes of Dutch and American parents towards the concept of their teenagers having opposite-sex sleepovers with romantic partners? 2. Why are Americans so afraid of teen sex?3. How do American attitudes about teen sex reflect broader differences in attitudes about adolescent romantic relationships in general from their Dutch counterparts?Acosta 1. How does Acosta describe the relationships between many sexually non-conforming Latinas with their families of origin? 2. What does “tacit acknowledgment” of relationships mean? 3. How does gay marriage pose a challenge for some of these family relationships?

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1.Dutch parents agree with their teenagers having sleepovers with romantic partners they are seriously dating and whose parents agree with. Whereas, in any case, such sleepovers are frowned upon by American parents (Schalet, 2010). 2.Americans have firmly correlated teen sex with pregnancy, STIs, and other sexually transmitted diseases, on contrary, the Dutch have more acceptance of these things than Americans in both (Schalet, 2010). 3.The Dutch give greater sex education and contraceptive access, but Americans aim to repress both as they are more concerned about pregnancy and other sexual diseases. Adolescent relationships are seen as superficial in the United States ("puppy love"), yet they are taken extremely seriously in the Netherlands (Schalet, 2010). In actuality, research shows that teenage relationships are frequently extremely intense and have a significant influence on a person, even in America, where people assume they do not (Schalet, 2010).