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1			Adolescence is a time when we not only are learning about sexuality while we deal with emerging sexuality and learning sexual scripts. Your instructor assigns a paper in which you are to evaluate the importance of sexual scripts in the change or lack of change of gender roles in dating. What information will you include? Write a brief outline of your paper. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_7-8_50/ai_n6079186 http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~simoncu/167/tiefkring.htm
2			While at home for vacation, you notice your younger sister wants to break up with her boyfriend but fears he will hurt himself or someone else. She seems to feel guilty about wanting to break up because she seems to be the only person who loves and understands him. You begin to wonder if she might be in an abusive relationship. What are the signs of an abusive dating relationship? http://www.coolnurse.com/dating_violence.htm http://teenadvice.about.com/library/weekly/aa061002a.htm
3			Do you or any of your friends know a teenage father? How does he cope with being a father? What special needs might he have in becoming a responsible father? If you do not know a teenage father, speculate about how a young man might cope and what his needs might be. http://vanderbiltowc.wellsource.com/dh/content_print.asp?ID=276 http://www.teenbreaks.com/guys/iamgoingtobeadad.cfm