Results Children who reported high levels of parental monitoring were less likely to report initiating sex in preadolescence (aged ≤ 10 years) and reported lower rates
of sexual initiation as they aged.
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.
Parental monitoring was related to the rate
of sexual initiation throughout the age range studied, with heavily monitored youth exhibiting a slower rate of initiation than less - monitored youth.
Children's reported discussion with guardians about sexual risks did not add to the prediction
of sexual initiation, either alone (χ21 = 0.66, P =.42) or in interaction with parental monitoring (χ21 = 0.35, P =.55).
The health goal of the curriculum is to promote positive sexual health behaviors and beliefs among students who have participated in the Get Real middle school comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, resulting in a delay
of sexual initiation, a reduction of unintended pregnancies, and higher use of protection methods.
Kenya Dating, we also examine how school enrollment and performance affect the timing
of sexual initiation.
Overall, an earlier age at menstruation was associated with an earlier age
of sexual initiation, age at pregnancy, and first live birth.
Conversations warning about the possibility of contracting an STD and disapproving of sex in general, were actually correlated with higher levels
of sexual initiation, unprotected sex, and sexually transmitted infections.
Not exact matches
«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.
Several questions also assessed
sexual behaviors, including age
of initiation.
This sets the stage for plenty
of «Bad» antics, partly played out in a rap - scored montage
of drinking, shoplifting, and vandalism (precursor to a junior
sexual initiation of getting flashed by a full - figured prostitute).
First, instead
of waiting until a case had been resolved before making the investigation public (its policy for decades), OCR now announced with great fanfare the
initiation of all
sexual harassment investigations.
Abstinence - Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the
Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy
The government did announce it would conduct further research on the «scale and scope»
of sexual harassment in schools — looking both at abuse against female pupils and violent «hazing» or
initiation techniques against male pupils, as well as how to involve young men in becoming «change agents»
of gender equality.
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.
Abstinence - only programs are fiscally irresponsible and have been proven to not delay
sexual initiation or lower rates
of pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections.
This can be addressed through policies that acknowledge the needs
of this age - group and through implementation
of comprehensive sexuality education.48 Such education should include discussions about gender equity and gender relations, delaying
sexual initiation and effective methods
of pregnancy prevention.
Individual risk factors for perpetration include alcohol and drug use, delinquency, empathic deficits, general aggressiveness and acceptance
of violence, early
sexual initiation, coercive
sexual fantasies, preference for impersonal sex and
sexual - risk taking, exposure to sexually explicit media, hostility towards women, adherence to traditional gender role norms, hyper - masculinity, suicidal behavior, and prior
sexual victimization or perpetration.
A nine - year, large - scale federally funded evaluation
of the Title V program found no measurable impact on increasing abstinence or delaying
sexual initiation among participating youth.
And a 2008 Guttmacher report found that most abstinence programs did not delay
initiation of sexual activity.
Predicting
initiations and refusals
of sexual activities in married and cohabiting heterosexual couples.
And because these strategies are an exaggerated version
of the traditional courtship script (featuring the male as the
sexual initiator and the female as the
sexual gatekeeper), it also makes sense that individuals with sexist attitudes would be more drawn to
initiation strategies in which men assert their dominance.
While true monogamy can protect partners if both were disease - free prior to the
initiation of sexual intercourse, many couples do not wait to get tested for diseases before they have sex the first time.
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.
Although this might initially seem counter intuitive, when one recognizes the power
of being able to reject a
sexual initiation by ones partner, it becomes much more apparent.
Let's look at
sexual initiation as part
of the difficulty
of desire discrepancy.
to stop or prevent the
initiation of dating violence victimization and perpetration, including the psychological, physical, and
sexual abuse that may occur between youths involved in a dating relationship
Safe Dates is a school - based prevention program for middle and high school students designed to stop or prevent the
initiation of dating violence victimization and perpetration, including the psychological, physical, and
sexual abuse that may occur between youths involved in a dating relationship.
While at UNB, her research examined
sexual initiation,
sexual compliance, attraction, oral sex motives, and the content
of web - based pornography.Her dissertation examined the association between violated romantic expectations (e.g., love at first sight, destiny) and relationship outcomes in young adults» dating relationships.
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.
Predictors
of early
sexual initiation among a nationally representative sample
of Nigerian adolescents
A multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that parental monitoring was inversely related to
sexual initiation (χ21 = 19.16, P =.0001), holding age, sex, their interaction, and type
of guardian constant.
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.
In one cross-sectional study, perception
of parental responsiveness to
sexual communication was found to offset the negative influence
of peers on
initiation of sexual activity (Fasula & Miller, 2006).
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.