Trial reportPediatrics2010
Timing of parent and child communication about sexuality relative to children's sexual behaviors.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parent-Adolescent Sexual Communication and Adolescent Safer Sex Behavior: A Meta-Analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2016Pooled it
- Engaging parents in digital sexual and reproductive health education: evidence from the JACK trial.Reproductive health · 2020Trial
- Evaluating the Short-term Impact of Media Aware Parent, a Web-based Program for Parents with the Goal of Adolescent Sexual Health Promotion.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Trial
- Parental sexual socialization and contraceptive use in young Black women and adolescent girls.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring Parental Intentions to Use Digital Tools to Enhance Parent-Child Sexual Communication in Europe: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- "They Mostly Preached Abstinence Which Didn't Work": Young Adults' Perception of Sex-Related Messages from Caregivers Prior to Initiation of Sex.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Whose Job Is It Anyway? Parents' Perspectives of Responsibilities for Educating Their Children About Sex.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2024Article
- Parenting in 2 Worlds: Testing improved parent-adolescent communication about sexuality in Urban American Indian families.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
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- A longitudinal assessment of adolescents' sexual communication with parents, best friends, and dating partners.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
- "Keep Talking to Me": College-Attending Women's Desires for Support from Mothers, Fathers, and Friends/Peers in Healthy Sexual Decision-Making.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Maternal Communication About Sexual Content and Ease of Access to Contraceptives.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Psychosocial and Cultural Processes Underlying the Epidemiological Paradox within U.S. Latino Sexual Risk: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Parents' perspectives on talk with their adolescent and emerging adult children about sex: A longitudinal analysis.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2023Article
- Pornography use among adolescents and the role of primary care.Family medicine and community health · 2023Article
- Talking about sexuality with your own child. The perspective of the parents of children born with arm.Pediatric surgery international · 2022Article
- A mixed methods study of sexuality education experiences and preferences among bisexual, pansexual, and queer (bi+) male youth.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2022Article
- Determinants of communication on sexual issues between adolescents and their parents in the Adaklu district of the Volta region, Ghana: a multinomial logistic regression analysis.Reproductive health · 2022Article
- Barriers to sexual and reproductive care among cisgender, heterosexual and LGBTQIA + adolescents in the border region: provider and adolescent perspectives.Reproductive health · 2022Article
- Moving from Needs Assessment to Intervention: Fathers' Perspectives on Their Needs and Support for Talk with Teens about Sex.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine timing of parent-child discussions about sexual topics relative to child-reported sexual behavior.
methodsLongitudinal study of employed parents and their children, with an initial survey followed by subsequent surveys 3, 6, and 12 months later. Participants were 141 parents, along with their children (13-17 years), who were control participants in a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate a worksite-based intervention to improve parent-adolescent communication. Main outcomes were parent and child reports of discussion of up to 24 sexual topics and presexual and sexual acts (ranging from handholding to vaginal intercourse) that occurred before the first survey and in the intervals between subsequent pairs of surveys.
resultsSexual topics tend to group into 3 sets. The first set includes topics such as girls' bodies and menstruation and typically coincides with children's presexual stage (handholding, kissing). The second set includes topics such as birth control efficacy and refusing sex and typically coincides with the precoital stage (genital touching and oral sex). The third set typically occurs when children have initiated intercourse. Over half of children engage in genital touching before discussing birth control efficacy, resisting partner pressure for sex, sexually transmitted disease symptoms, condom use, choosing birth control, or partner condom refusal; >40% of children have intercourse before any discussion about sexually transmitted disease symptoms, condom use, choosing birth control, or partner condom refusal.
conclusionsMany parents and adolescents do not talk about important sexual topics before adolescents' sexual debut. Clinicians can facilitate this communication by providing parents with information about sexual behavior of adolescents.
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