Editing Sleepover (section)

== Teen sleepovers ==
Beginning in the 1990s, commentators wrote about a perceived new trend of parents endorsing sleepovers for teenagers, with both boys and girls staying overnight together. While some writers decried the trend, others defended it as a safer alternative to teenage dating outside the house.<ref>Peter Annin, [https://www.newsweek.com/slumbering-around-176118 "Slumbering Around"], ''[[Newsweek]]'', November 4, 1996.</ref><ref>Emily Wax, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/11/16/coed-all-nighters-put-trust-on-line/72709f12-37c5-42a9-84be-d1012b359c49/ "Coed All-Nighters Put Trust on Line; Not All Parents Are Losing Sleep Over Teen Fad"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', November 16, 2000 {{subscription required}}, reprinted as [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AIEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bn8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5423,896121&dq=sleepover+teen+trend&hl=en "Coed all-nighters cause unrest"], ''[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]'', November 21, 2000.</ref><ref>[[Betsy Hart]], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5wsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FpgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4927,3016867&dq=sleepover+co-ed&hl=en "Coed sleepovers: Teenagers learn volumes from parents' decision-making"], [[Scripps Howard News Service]] in ''[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|The Daily News]]'' (Kentucky), November 24, 2000.</ref><ref>[[Amy Dickinson]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207132157/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998922,00.html "Coed Sleepovers"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', January 8, 2001.</ref>