Family communication about sex: What are parents saying and are their adolescents listening?

Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Miller, Kim S ^a   Kotchick, Beth A ^b   Dorsey, Shannon ^a   Forehand, Rex ^c   Ham, Anissa Y ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c CDC

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; ADOLESCENTS; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BLACKS; COMMUNICATION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; GENDER ISSUES; HISPANICS; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; INFECTIONS; MOTHERS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PARENTS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STUDIES; SURVEYS; UNITED STATES; VIRAL DISEASES; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SEX; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0345563262     PISSN: 00147354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2991607     Document Type: Article

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