{"id":124600,"date":"2022-09-02T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124600"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T15:06:21","slug":"dr-eva-goldfarb-sex-education-doesnt-have-to-be-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/09\/02\/dr-eva-goldfarb-sex-education-doesnt-have-to-be-awkward\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Eva Goldfarb: Sex Education Doesn&#8217;t Have to be Awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~goldfarbe\">Dr. Eva Goldfarb<\/a>, Public Health Professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20220823-how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-sex\">is quoted in a BBC article<\/a>\u00a0about why a conversation about sex education between parent and child doesn\u2019t have to be awkward.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Goldfarb states, &#8220;Start earlier than you think. Even with very young children you can talk about names of body parts and functions, body integrity and control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This includes talking about issues that parents may not even think about as sex-related, but that are about relationships more broadly: &#8220;Nobody gets what they want all the time, it&#8217;s important to treat everyone with kindness and respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, parents tend to find it\u00a0easier to talk to their children\u00a0about sex when these conversations start at a young age and come up naturally, separate research suggests. Answering young children&#8217;s questions openly and honestly can set a positive pattern that makes it easier to talk about more complex issues later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Eva Goldfarb, Public Health Professor, is quoted in a BBC article\u00a0about why a conversation about sex education between parent and child doesn\u2019t have to be awkward. Dr. Goldfarb states, &#8220;Start earlier than you think. Even with very young children you can talk about names of body parts and functions, body integrity and control.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events","category-284_master-of-public-health-news","category-214_public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}