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DOCUMENT RESUME SP 034 841 ED 364 512 Guide for Parents and TITLE Human Sexuality. A Resource Teachers im Teaching...HighSchool Level. Education, Salt Lake City. INSTITUTION Utah State Office of PUB DATE Jun 92 NOTE 219p. PUB TYPE Guides - Non-Classroom Use(055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. Attitudes; Health DESCRIPTORS *Decision Making Skills; Family Promotion; High Schools; HighSchool Students; *Human Body; Parents as Teachers;Parent Student Relationship; Reproduction(Biology); *Resource Materials; Self Esteem;*Sex Education; *Sexuality; Student Attitudes;*Student Behavior; Teacher Responsibility ABSTRACT This guide providesinformation and resources that understand human will facilitate parents'ability to help adolescents and ideals. It sexuality within the contextof home and family values decision making provides teachers with resourcesto facilitate the of objectives and process. Contents areorganized within a framework responsible guidelines for both parentsand teachers: (1) discuss the impact sexual behavior; abstinence,and fidelity; (2) recognize (3) develop the of sexual behavior onone's goals and self-esteem; (4) discuss skills that promoteprinciple-centered decision making; relationships; (5) address the physical andemotional aspects of maturation and the stages ofsexual development;(6) cover the systems; (7) anatomy and physiology ofmale and female reproductive development, birth defects, and pregnancy examine conception, fetal quality of risks; (8) recognize theimpact of teen pregnancies on (9) discuss life, child abuse, andlifestyle changes; and sexual abuse, incest, and rape.Additional pornography, prostitution, for materials on male and femalereproductive systems, case studies and facts about decision making, fetaldevelopment, pregnancy, myths included in a 40-page rape, and aself-efficacy questionnaire are (LL) appendix. 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