• Describe dating.
• Explain developmental patterns in adolescent dating.
• Understand the reasons adolescents and emerging adults date.
• Describe Sternberg's theory of love.
• Understand adolescent passion in non-Western cultures.
• Explain how adolescents and emerging adults choose romantic partners.
• Learn the similarities between attachments to romantic partners and attachments to parents.
• Understand the peer context of adolescent romantic relationships.
• Describe what breaking up is like for adolescents and emerging adults.
• Explain how young people choose a marriage partner.
• Understand arranged marriages.
• Describe the different cultural expectations for the marriage relationship.
• Learn about cohabitation.
• Describe the typical progression of adolescent sexual activity.
• Learn about masturbation as the first typical sexual activity of adolescence.
• Describe necking and petting in adolescence.
• Learn about sexual intercourse and oral sex in adolescence.
• Understand patterns of sexual activity in adolescence.
• Describe cultural beliefs about adolescent sexuality.
• Understand the gender double standard that exists in cultural attitudes toward adolescent sexuality.
• Describe characteristics of sexually active adolescents.
• Define sexual harassment and the incidence of it.
• Understand date rape.
• Explain what homosexual youth experience as they reach adolescence.
• Understand the difficulties facing gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth.
• Describe contraception use among adolescents in industrialized societies.
• Understand the consequences when an adolescent becomes pregnant.
• Describe the impact of adolescent fatherhood.
• Explain the consequences for children born to adolescent mothers.
• Learn the consequences for adolescent girls who have an abortion.
• Understand the risks and consequences of sexually transmitted diseases.
• Describe chlamydia.
• Learn about gonorrhea.
• Understand Herpes simplex.
• Learn about HIV/AIDS.
• Explain the controversy that exists regarding sex education.
• Understand the effectiveness of sex education programs in the United States.
• Describe the 10 characteristics that make sex education programs work.

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