Describe risk factors for early sexual activity in U.S. teens.
What will be an ideal response?
Risk factors for early sexual activity in U.S. teens are early pubertal maturation, poor parental monitoring, and poor parent-adolescent communication. In one study of nearly 15,000 adolescents, those who perceived that their parents made more warnings emphasizing the negative consequences of sex tended to accumulate more sexual partners. Perhaps youth who feel bombarded with parental warnings resist or react against such warnings. Authoritative parenting, regularly shared family activities, parental monitoring, and parental knowledge are associated with lower rates of sexual activity. Having sexually active peers and perceiving positive attitudes about sex among schoolmates predicts initiation and greater levels of sexual activity and a greater number of sexual partners. In addition, adolescents' perceptions of the sexual norms in their neighborhood, as well as siblings' sexual activity, are associated with age of initiation, casual sex, and the number of sexual partners, even after controlling for neighborhood demographic risk factors.
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