The stark limitations of sex education classes

October 8, 2014 | by Peter Jon Mitchell , Senior Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

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  6. Steinberg, Cognitive and affective, p. 70.
  7. Leonard Sax as quoted by Fillion, K. (2010, May 10). Gender expert Leonard Sax on the empty world of girls. MacLean’s, p. 21.
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  10. Neufeld & Maté, Hold on, p. 160.
  11. Neufeld & Maté, Hold on, p. 161.
  12. Mitchell, P.J. (2009). Rated PG. How parental influence impacts teen sexual activity. Ottawa: Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Retrieved from http://www.imfcanada.org/issues/rated-pg
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