ArticleSex education2024
Parents' attitudes towards the content of sex education in the USA: Associations with religiosity and political orientation.
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- Parents' and Teachers' Perceptions of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Early Childhood and Primary Education in Greece.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Reactions to Sexual, Substance Use, and Mental Health Surveys Among Rural Sexual Minority Men.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2025Article
- The State of Sexual Education: State Laws and Regulations Mandating Sexual Education in the United States.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Cocreating First Steps, a Toolkit to Improve Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: Qualitative Human-Centered Design Study With Hispanic and Black Adolescent Mothers in New York City.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2024Article
- Improving measures of context in process evaluations: development and use of the Context Tracker tool.Trials · 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
- Parental opposition to comprehensive sexuality education in Australia: associations with religiosity and school sector.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
While most parents support their adolescents receiving school-based sex education, there is variability in which sex education topics receive the most support from parents. Conservative political orientation and greater religiosity have been independently associated with parents' lack of support for school-based sex education; however, no studies have examined the intersection of these two factors. The three goals of this study were to: 1) identify how specific sexual education topics cluster together to form content areas; 2) examine if religiosity and political orientation are uniquely associated with these content areas; and 3) examine if political orientation moderates the relationship between parents' religiosity and their perceived importance for the specific sex education content areas. Participants were a national sample of 881 US parents. The sex education topics clustered into three content areas: Factual Knowledge (e.g., STI transmission), Practical Skills (e.g., how to access condoms), and Pleasure and Identity (e.g., pleasurable aspects of sex). Politically conservative and more religious parents reported the lowest perceived importance for each content area. Importantly, these main effects were qualified by a significant interaction: parents who reported both political conservativism
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