How to delay the onset of sexual intercourse in adolescents?

Teenage sex is always one of the issues that parents are very concerned about besides their children's academic performance.

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So how to delay the time of sexual initiation in adolescents?

A Dutch study found that girls have sex later in life if they are close to their mothers.

The Dutch study surveyed 2,931 teenagers. Experts used questions to find out about their sexual information and their relationships with their parents.

The experts ran the numbers twice. The first time was when the children were 12 years old and the second time was when they were 16. The results showed that among girls who were close to their mothers, 44% of girls aged 12-16 years old had not had sex.

The study's author, Raquel Nogueira Avelar e Silva, a public health researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, said that mothers play a protective role during adolescence's sexual awakening.

However, this study did not find out the extent of the mother's influence on boys.

Additionally, the study did not find a protective effect of fathers on sons or daughters in this regard.

This study focuses more on the relationship between parents and children.

They used a questionnaire survey to carefully understand how children and their parents lived together, including questions about how much they liked living with their parents, and discovered that the mother's role was more important during the child's adolescence than the father's.

In this survey, 233 children, equivalent to 8%, started having sex between the ages of 12 and 15, of which 77 were girls and 156 were boys.

Compared with children who did not have sex, these children said their parents did not supervise them as much and that their relationship with their parents was "worse."

The researchers crunched the numbers on sexual behavior and found a statistically significant association between girls and their mothers (In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance). This may be because mothers are more likely to talk to their daughters about the knowledge and risks of early sexual activity.

Of course, researchers also say that a warm family, good parent-child relationship, can openly talk about the topic of sex... cannot avoid children having sex early, but children who live in such an atmosphere will focus more on "enjoying" the family's education, will set goals towards many other issues other than sex.

The results of this study serve as a reminder for mothers to maintain open and frank communication with their children./.

According to Vietnam+