UMass prof. Amy Schalet offers sociological reasoning for sexual culture - The Next Great Generation - Boston.com
To illustrate this incongruity, Schalet described two contrasting scenes. While living in the Netherlands, she had a friend whose family could be deemed conservative -- "her parents were clearly Catholic, they ate dinner [as a family] at the exact same time every night, kept a clean house,” etc., Schalet said -- yet the parents never questioned her friend’s younger sister about having sleepovers with her then-boyfriend. Conversely, when she was living in the U.S., Schalet had a friend who grew up in a more progressive household (the parents were “ex-hippies,” she said) but was unable to engage her parents in conversations about contraception.
