Sentences with phrase «adolescent sexual initiation»

In addition, practitioners who serve adolescents in high - risk settings could encourage parents or guardians to become more involved with their children's sexual decision making and thereby increase the chances that adolescent sexual initiation will be either delayed or appropriately protected.

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«Although sexual initiation in adolescence is less common in Taiwan, the results indicate that the sexually experienced adolescents were associated with a cluster of adverse sociobehavioral consequences, similar to those found in Western societies,» writes Chan.

His first works from this period consist of refined draughtsmanship, pastel colors, and subtle tonal nuances, evoking childhood and adolescent memories, particularly those pertaining to sexual initiation and fantasy.

There were no treatment differences in teachers» reports of the adolescents» acting out in school; short - term or long - term suspensions; the adolescents» initiation of sexual intercourse; or the parents» or children's reports of major delinquent acts, minor antisocial acts, or other behavioral problems.

However, our analysis reveals that, with the exception of girls in single - parent families, family structure does not significantly influence adolescents» sexual initiation.

Sexual Activity Among Young People in the U.S. Source: Finer LB and Philbin JM, Sexual initiation, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among young adolescents, Pediatrics, 2013, 131 (5): 886 — 891.

However, these studies were not conducted with adolescents in high - poverty urban settings, where early sexual initiation is more normative than in lower - poverty settings.20 In a high - risk sample of African American youths aged 9 to 15 years, Romer et al21 found that parental monitoring was related only to very early sexual initiation (aged ≤ 10 years) and not to subsequent initiation of sex or condom use.

African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.

Predictors of early sexual initiation among a nationally representative sample of Nigerian adolescents

Analysis of the recent National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 35 a nationally representative sample of school - attending adolescents, indicated that contact between parents and adolescents is a major protective factor for a wide range of risk behaviors, including early sexual initiation.

Interventions with parents and other guardians are a promising strategy for reducing the risks of sexual initiation, because parents may be a more constant protective influence on children during the adolescent years than other influences.

Studies in adolescents have shown good parental communication and supervision were influential in delaying sexual initiation, and suggest an association between reduced parental supervision and an increase in STDs, an increase in number of sex partners, and a reduction in condom use.