Parent-Teen Communication
Toward the Prevention of Unintended Pregnancies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11094961 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Newcomer (corresponding author), James Jaccard (0000-0002-2254-1487), Patricia Dittus (0000-0003-4554-3853) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 788 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2072274 |
| OpenAlex | W1968074715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Parent-teen communication has been underestimated in its impact on preventing unintended pregnancies. The goal of this monograph is to identify the methodological and conceptual weaknesses in past research and to apply these consideration in the analysis of data. The emphasis is on parent-teen communication about premarital sex and premarital pregnancy and the development of parent education programs. The focus is on what parents say and do to motivate their children to avoid premarital pregnancy. The scope of the problem of teenage pregnancy is viewed as well as the literature on parent-teen communication about birth control and premarital sexual intercourse. A sample of 210 couples from Albany New York with a child between the ages of 12 and 16 years living with them was studied. Most were white middle-class suburban households. Parental questionnaires assessed the reservations parents had in talking about not having premarital sex opinions about teenage birth control and abstinence and an expansive inventory of opinions reasoning evaluation self-description teenagers description background parenting practices communication techniques locus of control family environment and family relationships. Teen questionnaires evaluated their parents ability to communicate and deal with their teens education about sexual issues their sexual behavior and use of contraceptives. Conclusions in the correlation analysis for instance were that parent education programs are important in promoting responsible sexual behavior in helping parents communicate and find an appropriate time to have a discussion and in teaching parental social skills effective reasoning and guides in discussing permissible sex. Prior research has been biased toward teenagers views has used crude measures and has not considered specific strategies or content in reasoning with teenagers or parental sexual views or context
Environmental health · Family planning · Political science · Population · Unintended consequences · Unintended pregnancy · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Law · Medicine · Psychology
The Examination of Young Mexican American Women’s Contraceptive Use
Talking About Sex
Parental Influence on Their Adult Children’s Sexual Values
Disparities in Depressive Distress by Sexual Orientation in Emerging Adults
Longitudinal Influence of Perceptions of Peer and Parental Factors on African American Adolescent Risk Involvement
Developmentally appropriate sexual risk reduction interventions for adolescents
Parent-Child Communication About Sexuality
Perceived parental monitoring and health risk behaviors among urban low-income African-American children and adolescents
Randomized Trial of a Parent Intervention
Parent-Adolescent Congruency in Reports of Adolescent Sexual Behavior and in Communications about Sexual Behavior
Impact of perceived parental monitoring on adolescent risk behavior over 4 years
The Impact of African American Fathers on Adolescent Sexual Behavior
A Typology Approach to Describing Parents as Communicators about Sexuality
The Effects of Parental Mediation of Sexual Content on the Sexual Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Adolescents in the US
Parent-Teen Communication About Sexual Topics
Mother-Daughter Communication About Sex and Sexual Intercourse Among Middle- to Upper-Class African American Girls
Family ecology and HIV sexual risk behaviors among African American and Puerto Rican adolescent males
Deciding to reveal sexual information and sexuality education in mother-daughter relationships
Family Relationships and Adolescent Pregnancy Risk
No More Birds and Bees
Is Sexual Communication Challenging Between Mothers and Daughters
Correlates and Consequences of Parent–Teen Incongruence in Reports of Teens' Sexual Experience
Families, Science, and Values
Peer Influences on Risk Behavior
A longitudinal study of conversations with parents about sex and dating during college
Mothers’ Efforts Toward Their Children’s Sex Education
Insight into Informant Discrepancies Regarding Psychosexual Functioning of Adolescents with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
The Parent-Adolescent Relationship Education (Pare) Program
Participation in Athletics and Female Sexual Risk Behavior
Parent-Teen Communication about Premarital Sex
Gender Differences in the ABC’s of the Birds and the Bees
Pubertal Development, Parental Communication, and Sexual Values in Relation to Adolescent Sexual Behaviors
Understanding Gang Joining from a Cross Classified Multi-Level Perspective
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2021 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |