Purpose Sexual activity is a normative part of adolescent development, yet early sexual
debut and sex with multiple partners undermine health and well-being. Both structural (eg …

One of the aims of social work as a discipline is to improve the quality of life of families by
finding solutions to inherent problems such as sexual behaviour in the adolescent. This …

PURPOSE: To estimate effects of positive and involved parenting during mid-adolescence
on sexual risk behaviors (frequency of intercourse, unprotected intercourse, and number of …

CONTEXT: Youth assets are associated with a reduction in sexual risk behavior; however,
little is known about this association among youth at high risk of engaging in unsafe …

Background Few studies, particularly in developing countries, have explored the
relationship between adolescents and parental values with adolescent problem behaviors …

Early sexual activity of adolescents is associated with increased risk of teenage pregnancy,
sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and higher maternal/perinatal morbidity and …

PURPOSE:: The purpose of this study is to document associations among problem
behaviors in childhood and early adolescence and several health risk behaviors in middle …

Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and in Botswana in particular continue to bear the brunt
of the HIV epidemic. This analysis assessed gender differences among theory-based sexual …

Most studies of the association between family structure and risky sexual behaviour among
adolescents and young adults have employed a risk perspective which assumes that …

Background: Not much is understood about the predictive power of home environment and
peer pressure on disruptive behaviour and risky sexual behaviour of adolescents …