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Schalet, an auxiliary professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, says a key point for the disparity is that American and Dutch parents approach the issue of teen sexuality in radically another ways, the most obvious and tangible of which is that most Dutch parents are willing, under definitive circumstances (a relationship they approve of, the proven use of birth control), to add their teenagers to have sleepovers with their romantic partners.

For most American parents, the very impression elicits an exclamation Schalet took for the title of her new book, “Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Way of life of Sex.’’ For many families, the tension surrounding the issue is perhaps most acute at this prematurely of year, when students come home for the holidays with a new college boyfriend or girlfriend.

Schalet’s libretto, which draws on extensive interviews with more than 100 teenagers and their parents in both countries, highlights originate distinctions between the information Dutch teenagers get about sex, where schools and families kick upstairs a positive narrative of sexuality within the context of a loving relationship and orthodox development, and the mixed messages American teenagers receive.

Source: Boston.com