Purpose The association between parental monitoring and adolescent behavior is well
established. Past research suggests that parents monitor adolescent activities through …

Objective To explain the influence of parental monitoring on adolescent sexual initiation
within the context of a cognitive behavioral model. Design, Setting, and Participants Virginal …

CONTEXT: Increasingly, health care providers are using approaches targeting parents in an
effort to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Research is needed to …

Purpose Research suggests that parents can be important sources of sex education for their
children, but we know little about how this type of communication changes developmentally …

PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between adolescent sexual risk-taking and
perception of parental monitoring, frequency of parent–adolescent communication, and …

The role of parental communication and instruction concerning sexual behaviour were
studied in a community-based sample of 1083 youth aged 13–17 (mean age of 15 years; …

We used discrete-time survival mixture modeling to examine 5,305 adolescents from the
1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth regarding the impact of parental monitoring …

Parents have the potential to protect against adolescent sexual risk, including early sexual
behavior, inconsistent condom use, and outcomes such as pregnancy and sexually …

Objectives: To examine how the relationship between parental-related youth assets and
youth sexual activity differed by race/ethnicity. Methods: A random sample of 976 youth and …

Purpose Studies suggest that the quality of parent–adolescent communication about sex
uniquely predicts adolescent sexual behavior. Previous studies have relied predominantly …