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Sex in the headlines: explaining the news to kids
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Pamela Casagrande told her daughter: 'He's married and it's wrong'
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CNN's Linda Ciampa reports
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September 12, 1998
Web posted at: 4:05 p.m. EDT (2005 GMT)
ATLANTA (CNN) -- What can parents do for their kids when learning about current events means getting sex education?
It depends on the child's age, says child psychologist Sylvia Rimm.
News of President Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky -- as detailed in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's public report to Congress -- may be discussed matter-of-factly in terms children can understand, experts say.
"If it's a young child, you can talk about 'in a private way' or as a 'boyfriend-girlfriend' and how wrong that is when a person is married," Rimm says.
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