Parenting and Adolescents' Sexual Initiation

Longmore, Monica A.; Eng, Abbey L.; Giordano, Peggy C.; Manning, Wendy D.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00647.x

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“…In line with research evidences elsewhere and diverging from the Zambian study the findings of this study shown that parent child connectedness is protective against risky sexual behavior [20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. This difference could be explained by cultural differences.…”

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confidence: 88%

Assessment of Parenting Practices and Styles and Adolescent Sexual Behavior among High School Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Cherie¹,

Berhanie²

2015

J AIDS Clin Res

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Back Ground and Statement of the ProblemParents are the first socializing agents, teachers, leaders and counselors to their children. Parent's guidance and support is always important, however it is highly needed in the period of adolescence, which is a transition from childhood to adulthood and is characterized by spurts of physical, mental, emotional, social and sexual development [1]. Healthy sexuality is a developmental process which needs investments from parents.Sexual risk taking which includes early coital debut, multiple sexual relation, non use and inconsistent use of condom is becoming common among substantial numbers of young people. Risky sexual activity puts adolescents at risk of various reproductive health challenges. It is identified that about 20,000 girls under the age of 18 give birth each day Parenting style is defined as the ardent climate provided by parents and parenting practices signify the behaviors in which parents involve with the purpose of undertaking specific socialization goals. Research evidences showed that parental practices such as parent child connectedness, parental monitoring and parents and adolescents communication about sexuality is protective against risky sexual behavior [9-11]. Baumrind's identified four parenting styles: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive and Neglectful. Studies showed that children from authoritative parents tend to engage in fewer risk behaviors than children from other parenting types [12,13].Although, Adolescent's behavior is deeply affected by the family environment they live and parents are the main source of influence and credible sources to their children with regard to sexuality little is known in Ethiopia about the relationship between the different parenting practices and safe sexual behavior. Thus, it is the purpose of this study to assess the effect of different parenting styles and parenting practices on the sexual behavior of adolescents.The result of this study will help to formulate policies, design strategies and programmes about proper parenting practices for the current and would be parents. Subjects and MethodsThis cross sectional study was conducted among regularly attending 15-24 years of age high school youth in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa is administratively divided into 10 Sub Cities.A sample size of 3840 students was calculated based on proportion of parenting practice 50%, 95% confidence interval, power 80%, margin of error 0.03, design effect of 3 and 20% allowance for non-response [14].A three stages sampling was used to select study participants from the source population. In the first stage one high school was selected randomly from each sub-city. The sample size was assigned proportionate to the total student population for each selected school. One section was selected from each grade in the identified schools Abstract Background: Healthy sexuality is a developmental process which needs investments from parents. Nonetheless, little is known about the effect of parenting practices and...

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confidence: 88%

Assessment of Parenting Practices and Styles and Adolescent Sexual Behavior among High School Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Cherie¹,

Berhanie²

2015

J AIDS Clin Res

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“…This is in tandem with the assertions of Miller [15] that "caregiver warmth and related constructs may protect against early sexual initiation and the potential consequences of sex during adolescence. More so, data from both American and European youth suggest that care giver caring, caregiver involvement are inversely associated with sexual initiation in adolescence [16]. Transitional Teens Model also identified parental influence as one of the key element that significantly affects and influence adolescence behaviours.…”

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Risky Sexual Behaviour among Secondary School Adolescents in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Nigeria

Oluwatoyin¹,

Modupe²

2014

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“…Esta função pode ser especialmente difícil para os pais 'latinos', pois eles podem ter dificuldades em ensinar os valores tradicionais de sua cultura para seus filhos enquanto as crianças se tornam mais aculturadas na sociedade americana (BARKLEY & MOSHR, 1995;ESPIN, 1984). Os pais podem tentar adiar os comportamentos de namoro de seus filhos através do controle parental, como quando dão ou não permissão para começar a namorar (LONGMORE et al, 2009 GUILAMO-RAMOS et al, 2005;ANESHENSEL, FIELDER & BECERRA, 1989;FLORES et al, 1998;FORD & NORRIS, 1993). No entanto, a maioria das pesquisas que trataram sobre a juventude e início da vida adulta 'latina' usam o termo 'latino' como um hiperônimo que inclui imigrantes de mais de 20 países diferentes (DRISCOLL et al;.…”

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“…Isto está de acordo com as pesquisa anteriores, que encontraram uma diferença de gênero nos comportamentos de namoro dos jovens 'latinos', com os rapazes tendo estes comportamentos em uma idade mais precoce que as meninas (DRISCOLL et al, 2001;RAFFAELLI, 2005 (DORN-BUSCH et al, 1985;HOGAN & KITAGAWA, 1985;MILLER, MCCOY, OLSON & WALLACE, 1986). Em sua maioria, os pais da América Central foram bem sucedidos em postergar o início dos comportamentos de namoro, bem como da vida sexual, de seus filhos, ao exercerem o controle parental sobre eles (LONGMORE et al, 2009). Mais especificamente, eles foram bem sucedidos em limitar as escolhas dos adolescentes sobre relacionamentos íntimos (LONGMORE et al,2009).…”

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Variações no Comportamento de Namoro entre Estudantes Universitários Centro-americanos, Cubanos e Sul-americanos.

Wright¹

2013

Revista Latino-ame

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To assess the influence of geographical region, generational status, and gender on the dating behaviors of Latino college students, 451 college students from Central America, Cuba, and South America answered questions regarding their geographical region descent, generational status, and dating history. Significant differences were found in dating behaviors. Participants from Central America began dating later than participants from Cuban and South American. Variations in age when parents allowed dating was accounted for by geographic region, gender of the child, and generational status. There was a gendered difference in age at first date in that males went on their first date earlier than females. Age at first date was also predicted by when parents first allowed dating. Age at first sexual encounter was impacted by geographic region, age when parents first allowed dating, and age at first date. Results demonstrate the need to examine Latino immigrants by geographical region instead of grouping immigrants from over 20 different countries under the term 'Latino.'.

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Parenting and Adolescents' Sexual Initiation

Cited by 73 publications

References 23 publications

Assessment of Parenting Practices and Styles and Adolescent Sexual Behavior among High School Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Assessment of Parenting Practices and Styles and Adolescent Sexual Behavior among High School Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Risky Sexual Behaviour among Secondary School Adolescents in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Nigeria

Variações no Comportamento de Namoro entre Estudantes Universitários Centro-americanos, Cubanos e Sul-americanos.

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