The Sexual Behavior of Adolescents in Middle America: Generational and American-British Comparisons

Vener, Arthur M.; Stewart, Cyrus S.; Hager, David L.

doi:10.2307/350322

Cited by 28 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Consistent with this notion, a number of studies have reported a negative relation between measures of SES such as family income, parental education, and place of residence and adolescent sexual experience (e.g., Hogan and Kitagawa, 1985;Inazu and Fox, 1980;Leigh et al, 1988;Miller and Olson, 1988). Fairly typical are the findings of Vener et al (1972) about adolescent coital rates from three white Michigan communities: a professional managerial community, a blue-collar community, and a mixed (for SES) community. For girls aged between 13 and 17, there was a marked community effect, with girls from the professionalmanagerial community having substantially lower rates of coital experience; for girls aged 17 and over from the higher SES community reported coital experience was 12%, compared with 40% from the blue-collar community.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Status (Ses)mentioning

confidence: 84%

Parent–Child Interaction During Adolescence, and the Adolescent's Sexual Experience: Control, Closeness, and Conflict

Taris¹,

Semin²

1997

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is often assumed that a good parent-child relationship leads to a later sexual initiation of the adolescent. Using a representative longitudinal sample of 332 (Time One) to 255 (Time Two) mother-adolescent pairs, we sought to reexamine the relations between distal variables (including socioeconomic status, age of mother and child, presence of the father), proximate variables (rearing styles, sexual permissiveness), and the amount of intrafamily conflict and adolescent sexual behavior, by means of structural modeling techniques and logistic regression analysis. Our results did not support the notion of delayed sexual initiation of adolescents as a consequence of positive parent-child relationships. On the contrary, we find that the stronger parental desire to maintain a good relationship with their adolescents, the more likely it is that their sexual initiation will be at a younger age. A decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth.

show abstract

Section: Socioeconomic Status (Ses)mentioning

confidence: 84%

Parent–Child Interaction During Adolescence, and the Adolescent's Sexual Experience: Control, Closeness, and Conflict

Taris¹,

Semin²

1997

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The figures characterizing this period range from about 50 per cent (Christensen and Gregg, 1970, for their non-Mormon population; Teevan, 1972) to a little less than 60 per cent (Cams, 1973;Hobart, 1972;Kaats and Davis, 1970;Luckey and Nass, 1969). If there was in the 20-25 years following World War II a second 20th-century "sex revolution," it apparently did not take the form of increased heterosexual behavior of males (Vener et al, 1972, emphasize this in cross-generation comparisons of high school students). The significant changes, rather, were the emergence of a more permissive attitude toward premarital coitus, selective weakening of the double standard, and an increase in experience among women (Kaats and Davis, 1970;Reiss, 1966).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%