Parent-Teen Communication: Toward the Prevention of Unintended Pregnancies (Recent Research in Psychology)

This book is concerned with the influence of parents on teenage behaviour. It focuses on one important aspect of the parent-teenager relationship - communication about premarital sex and premarital pregnancy. The study seeks to describe present-day parent-teenager communication dynamics and their implications for teenage sexual behaviour. While much of the past literature has examined the issue of teenage pregnancy from the perspective of the teenager, the research reported in this book deals primarily with parental perspectives and offers new data gathered during a major research project on parent-teenage communication.