As any parent or guardian knows, the time when teenagers become interested in dating is full of excitement but also full of complications. Those complications come when teens are stretching their wings, feeling out what it's like to live in the adult world, testing the limits of personal freedom, exploring romance and intimacy, and beginning to have sexual relationships.

As many of us who are parents and guardians know, it's complicated for us, too. We don't want to alienate our children during this transitional period of their lives, but talking about it is far from easy. So we reluctantly let them figure it out for themselves, but we stay up late to be sure they get home safe, check in to see how the date went, and then lose sleep wondering what really happened.

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