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Dads Today Talk More Freely With Their Teens About Sex and Relationships

For many dads, talking with their teenager about sex and relationships can feel like a minefield. Popular culture doesn’t provide many good examples of how to have these conversations, and many fathers didn’t have these conversations at all with their own father

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