Attitude, Knowledge and Behavior about Sexuality among Adolescents

The children of today are not the children of yesterday. Growth in terms of maturity and knowledge can be seen on a large scale for the adolescent population of today. Notions and ideas about sexuality were a prohibited topic till long time back but now adolescents are much aware and filled with various kinds of knowledge on the same. Researchers have shown that parents play the most significant role in imparting sex education to their adolescent children. They have been found to be the primary sex educators where basic and the initial knowledge about sexual attitudes and the like are conveyed on to the children. This study is basically on the attitudes, knowledge and behavior about sexuality among adolescents. It has been done by gathering data on the previous research studies conducted in this area. A combination of thirteen distinct articles and research studies have been reviewed and critically analyzed through content analysis. The age range of the children in the articles reviewed varied from 09 to 15 years of adolescents and parents of children who were 03-06 years of age were also included the articles. The articles portrayed that fathers need to be more involved in discussing about various topics related to sexuality, mothers should be more willing to talk more with their sons about topics related to sexuality and there should be reduction in the gender bias.