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  • Parents have a lot of influence over their children, and if conversations about sex were a normal, natural part of day-to-day life, when it's appropriate and when it's needed, "I think that would have a tremendous impact," she added.

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  • Ms. Schalet's book "gives us all, and parents in particular, food for thought" about how to support young people so they can have "happy and fulfilling adult lives, romantically and sexually," said Monica Rodriguez, president and chief executive of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.

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