This article explores how and why parents in rural Nigeria discuss sexuality-related matters
with their adolescent children. The data presented here demonstrate that parents relegate …

Interest in the socio-cultural context of adolescents' sexual knowledge and behaviour has
proliferated recently. But the irony is that very little of this debate is informed by what …

Background. Traditionally, discussion about sexuality is subdued in proverbs and is
earmarked for adults. However, adolescents also need information about their sexuality to …

This study reports the results of a primary qualitative investigation of teaching of family life
education in schools as a panacea to the ever-lingering adolescents' sexuality problems …

Background Parent-child communication is an effective tool for fostering healthy sexual and
reproductive behaviours among adolescents. However, the topic is underexplored in …

Among limits to school based sex education in Namibia are teachers that sexually harass
children, unqualified Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) teachers and lack of teaching …

Background Evidence suggests that in spite of some adolescents being sexually active,
many parents do not discuss sex-related issues with them due to lack of age-appropriate …

Although young people in Nigeria become sexually active at a very early age, little is known
about how they view sex, sexuality, and relationships with the opposite sex. Yet knowledge …

Parent-adolescent communication about sexual matters is one of the means that
encourages adolescents to adopt responsible sexual behaviour. However, parents do not …

Continuing high rates of adolescent childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa indicate a needfor
improved understanding offactors affecting adolescent sexuality. As traditional cultural …