Over the past decade the proportion of sexually active adolescents has increased
dramatically, creating a climate of concern in American society. The heightened visibility of …

Improving communication about sex and birth control between parents and their children
has often been cited as a means to encourage young people to use contraceptives more …

Data collected over a two-year period from more than 500 teenagers and their mothers
indicate that neither parental attitudes toward premarital sex nor parent-child communication …

Adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates in the United States are
among the highest among developed nations. A survey of female adolescent family …

Highlights... Sexual Experience and Activity Contraceptive Use Other Aspects of Sexual
Behavior Introduction... Trends in Adolescents' Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use …

Findings in this report summarize the first phase of a larger, multi-year study that is
combining qualitative and quantitative methods to outline a conceptual framework to guide …

COMMUNICATION AND CONTRACEPTIVE PRACTICES IN ADOLESCENT COUPLES
Denise Polit-O'Hara, Ph. D. and Janet R. Kahn ABSTRACT This study presents a descriptive …

Drawing on a theoretical model of adolescent contraceptive behavior, we examined the
relationships between various social and behavioral variables and contraceptive use by …

Maternal disapproval of premarital sex, maternal discussions about birth control and the
quality of the parent-child relationship may have an important influence on adolescents' …

A 1979 survey among sexually active unmarried black adolescents from Chicago found that
28 percent of the young women and 18 percent of the young men used a contraceptive at …