What can individuals and families do to increase visibility and tolerance in schools and communities?
Certainly one of the things that can be done, is that families can be supportive of their children and their teens. And they can advocate with the school for allowing the kinds of supportive policies, like Gay-Straight Alliances. They can encourage schools to actually allow the kinds of courses that would be helpful to kids. Parents can be amazingly influential on the content that is taught in sexual education classes. They can have a really important role in advocating that the school provides accurate and comprehensive sex education that includes all orientation groups. In the results of the study, bisexual male and female teens reported higher pregnancy involvement than their gay or heterosexual peers. What does that say to you about bisexual youth visibility in public policy and education? I can only speculate. Adolescence is a developmental stage and so some of the teens who are identifying as gay will eventually identify as bisexual, some of the people who are identifying as bise
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