{"id":354940,"date":"2010-02-23T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/parents-influence-adolescents-sexual-behavior-39883\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:47:52","slug":"parents%c2%92-influence-on-adolescents%c2%92-sexual-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354940","title":{"rendered":"Parents\u0092 Influence on Adolescents\u0092 Sexual Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.23.10 10:00 AM posted by Collette Caprara<\/p>\n

For the first time in more than a decade, the rate of pregnancies among 18- and 19-year-olds <ahref="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/25\/AR2010012503957.html">is on the rise.<\/p>\n

Unwed mothers and children born outside of marriage are more likely to be poor, increasing likelihood of dependence on government welfare. If we seek limited government, we need solutions to reduce the trend of unwed pregnancy.<\/p>\n

\nAs far as school instruction and programs for teens are concerned, the good news is that a recent report shows programs that teach abstinence exclusively (without \u0093safe sex\u0094 caveats) are effective in delaying adolescents\u0092 sexual debut and decreasing the likelihood sexual activity and engaging with <ahref="http:\/\/archpedi.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/164\/2\/152 ">multiple sexual partners.<spanid="more-27063"><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet factors that influence adolescents\u0092 sexual behavior and life changes also lie closer to home\u0097in the actions and attitudes exhibited by parents. Specifically, parents\u0092 examples that convey the messages that it is best to wait until marriage to have children and that marriage should be a bond of commitment can decrease the likelihood that teens will be sexually active.<\/p>\n

Youths whose parents talk with them about the social and moral consequences of being sexually active and convey clear standards regarding sexual behavior are more likely to be abstinent. Adolescents\u0092 very* perception that their parents would disapprove of their becoming sexually active reduces the likelihood that they would contract a sexually transmitted disease. And teens whose parents indicate a concern about their behavior via monitoring and involvement are less likely to be sexually active.<\/p>\n

Likewise, messages sent through parents\u0092 own example has an impact on the sexual behavior of their children. Teens who were born out of wedlock are more likely to be sexually active than peers whose parents were married at the time of their birth. In addition, youths whose parents do not marry or whose marriages end in dissolution are more likely to be sexually active and to have more sexual partners. In fact, the number of transitions in family structure that teen girls experience is related to an increase in the likelihood that they will become pregnant before they reach their twenties.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the impact of culture or peers, parents can and do have an effect on their children\u0092s sexual behavior and related prospects for the future.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/23\/…xual-behavior\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 02.23.10 10:00 AM posted by Collette Caprara For the first time in more than a decade, the rate of pregnancies among 18- and 19-year-olds <ahref="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/25\/AR2010012503957.html">is on the rise. Unwed mothers and children born outside of marriage are more likely to be poor, increasing likelihood of dependence on government welfare. If we seek limited government, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}