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Raising a Gay Teen: The Parent's Perspective/AIDS in Adolescents: Keeping All Our Kids Safe
Part One: Raising A Gay Teen: The Parent's Perspective: On the last episode of "Keeping Kids Healthy", we learned what it's like to be a gay teen in a predominantly straight society. On this episode, we focus on the impact of a child's homosexuality on the parents. How does a mother deal with her own feelings, while still helping her child? What if you're uncomfortable about telling your friends that your child is gay? What if your religion says homosexuality is wrong? Meet a Baptist minister from Virginia who had to answer that question; and travel to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where a mother and father who were pillars of their community became outcasts when their son "came out." Find out what parents can do to effectively negotiate the minefields of what can be a very challenging situation.
Part Two: AIDS In Adolescents: Keeping All Our Kids Safe: If you think that AIDS only affects straight teens, you're wrong! Young people aged 13 to 24 account for half of all new AIDS infections each year, and many of those kids are straight young people engaging in the most traditional kinds of sexual interaction. And one reason why AIDS is so widespread is that we've dropped the ball on teaching our children the most important message: PREVENTION. Meet a mother who lost her daughter to AIDS, and let her, along with a renowned AIDS expert and a teenaged peer educator, teach you how to prevent your child from becoming an AIDS statistic.
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