s.e. smith

If you take nothing else away from Scarleteen Confidential, we feel these five things are the real guiding principles when it comes to parenting well.

Young people sometimes feel uncomfortable talking with parents and guardians about contraception.

In this series we pass on our insight including what we observe and learn from working with young people to parents, guardians and other supportive adults.

Our societies are chock-full of norms and ideals of beauty that shape how we feel about our bodies, and we all run up against them eventually.

What do you do when you don’t like your kid’s new partner?

How do you navigate a relationship when one or both partners are dealing with pain?

Many trans or gender non-conforming youth come to us looking for support they’re having difficulty finding, or don’t feel safe looking for elsewhere.

As a young parent, being shamed for the decisions you have made and being stigmatized for your identity makes navigating through the world – and pregnancy and parenting – much more difficult.

Being inclusive of disabled people in sex education and sexuality as a whole benefits those of us who are disabled, but it also can benefit everybody.

Placing a child for adoption as a birth mother makes “do you have any children?” hard to answer sometimes.