Drawing on a panel study of parents and children, we investigate linkages between parents' marital quality and adult children's attitudes toward a range of family issues, including premarital sex, cohabitation, lifelong singlehood, and divorce. We hypothesize that parents' marital quality will be negatively related to children's support for these behaviors in adulthood and that parents' marital...

BACKGROUND In recent years, many studies have focused on adolescent's sex-related issues in China. However, there have been few studies of unmarried migrant females' sexual knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, which is important for sexual health education and promotion. METHODS A sample of 5156 unmarried migrant female workers was selected from three manufacturing factories, two located in Sh...

BACKGROUND Premarital sexual relationships could harm youth's health in terms of sexually transmitted infections or increased risk of unprotected sexual behaviors. Sexual abstinence has been recommended to prevent young adolescents from adverse outcomes of premarital sexual relationships. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore the viewpoints of sexually active single women about prem...

This study aims to determine the risk factors that influence premarital sex behavior among adolescents. The method used is a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines by searching for articles in Pubmed, Scopus, ScienceDirect and Proquest databases. results showed parental supervision had significant indirect relationship with sexual of adolescents through attitudes about sex, sexuality int...

INTRODUCTION Several studies in Sub- Saharan Africa have documented high and increasing premarital sexual activities among adolescents. Younger people face social, peer and cultural pressure to engage in premarital sex. As a result, significant numbers of adolescents are involved in sexual activities at an early age which exposes them to the risk of unintended pregnancy, early marriage, abortio...

Socially constructed ideas of gender norms and values attached to sexuality need to be considered when aiming to build the young people's capacity to adopt HIV preventive behaviours. We conducted ten focus groups and sixteen individual interviews to explore sexual norms among youth in Bamako. Premarital sex, multiple partnering, condom use and transactional sex were discussed. The findings sugg...

Premarital sexual behavior among teenagers is getting higher. The low level of moral education and failure in the division roles, functions, duties family triggers adolescents to behave freely even violate religious social norms. This research was conducted look at description development factors that cause have premarital sex. study uses a qualitative method with phenomenological design purpos...

This study aims to determine the factors that influence premarital sexual behavior in adolescents and of these on adolescent Alok District Bola District. The method used is quantitative with a cross-sectional approach 104 determined proportionally by random sampling. Data analysis simple logistic regression test. results showed there was significant relationship between knowledge (p = 0.021; OR...