Mother Daughter Relationships and Female Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Author : Charlotte Elaine Walker
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2005
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The Impact of the Mother-daughter Relationship on the Risky Sexual Behaviors of Female Adolescents
Author : Jaimee L. Hartenstein
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2012
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Female adolescent sexual behavior has several potential negative life consequences including: pregnancy, sexually transmitted infection, and HIV/AIDS. Educating parents on how they play a role in the decision-making process regarding the sexual behavior of their adolescent daughters has important implications for Family Life Educators. This thesis explores maternal influence on the risky sexual behavior of female adolescents related to age at first sexual intercourse, contraceptive use, and number of partners. ANOVA was used to explore the relationships between a variety of aspects in the mother-daughter relationship. Findings show there are associations between time spent together, perceptions of closeness, and communication in mother-daughter relationships, and contraceptive use at first and most recent intercourse and total number of partners.
Female Adolescent Sexuality
Author : Ann Kathryn Mack
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Communication in families
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The Mother-Daughter Project
Author : SuEllen Hamkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1440623198
Book Description
Few things are more meaningful—or more complicated—than mother-daughter relationships. This helpful parenting guide helps moms navigate their relationships with their daughters to create strong ties and a close, respectful connection that will last a lifetime. SuEllen Hamkins, MD, and Renée Schultz, MA, originally created the Mother-Daughter Project with other women in their community in the hopes of strengthening their bonds with their then seven-year-old girls. The group met regularly to speak frankly about such issues as friendships and aggression, puberty, body image, drugs, and sexuality. The results were amazing: confident, assertive teenage girls with strong self-images and close ties to their moms. Equally important, the mothers navigated their own concerns about adolescence with integrity and grace. From their dedication and efforts arose The Mother-Daughter Project, an incredibly useful parenting handbook that details the success of the Project’s groundbreaking model, providing mothers with a road map for staying close with their own daughters through adolescence and beyond.
Parent-adolescent Sexual Communication and Adolescent Cognitive Processes on Sexual Risk Among European American Female Adolescents
Author : Nicole Melinda Stanoff
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Communication and sex
ISBN : 9781109711196
Book Description
This study investigated the relationship between mother-adolescent sexual communication and adolescents' engagement of sexual behavior among a sample of 2,669 European American female adolescents, ages 13 to 18 years, and their mothers, from the first Wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Communication was assessed by the frequency that mothers discussed the negative consequences of intercourse with their daughters, one year prior to engagement of sexual risk. Additional family factors including mothers' knowledge of adolescent dating, family structure, and socioeconomic status were examined on the effectiveness of sexual communication and pregnancy risk. In addition to maternal influence, this study acknowledged the importance of adolescent predictors on sexual risk, including adolescents' dating experience, decision making, and awareness of the negative consequences of sexual intercourse. This study also determined if decision making/awareness of sexual consequences mediated the relationship between communication and pregnancy risk. Finally, the moderating effects of adolescents' age and mother-daughter closeness were examined in the associations between communication and sexual risk, and between decision making/awareness and sexual risk. Sexual communication influenced engagement of sexual risk. However, contrary to the hypothesis, communication around sexual risk contributed to adolescents' increased engagement of intercourse, and was ineffective in increasing condom use. Regarding adolescent predictors, decision making and awareness of sexual consequences decreased the likelihood of sexual risk, and decision-making partially mediated the relationship between communication and intercourse. There was no moderation of age or mother-daughter relationship quality in the above associations, indicating that mother and adolescent predictors had similar effects for younger and older adolescents, and across groups of mothers/adolescents who reported low and high levels of closeness. These findings suggest that discussing the negative consequences of intercourse does not prevent adolescents' engagement in sexual behavior, and adolescents may interpret this style of communication as controlling and dramatic, and rebel against parents' advice by becoming sexually active. Furthermore, adolescents' cognitive skills and ability to recognize consequences of sex played an important role in deterring sexual engagement. Thus, adolescent predictors may be more of a protective factor against engagement in sexual risk above and beyond that of maternal influence.
Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health
Author : Gina M. Wingood
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1461506891
Book Description
This volume is designed to motivate and engage scientists, policymakers, and practitioners to greater scientific discourse, reduce the stigma on and validate the importance of women's sexual and reproductive health. It brings together historians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health researchers, genetic counselors, attorneys, social workers, nurses and physicians, and presents comprehensive coverage that will benefit women's health advocates, students, and practitioners.
Mother-daughter Sexual Communication and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2015
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The Influence of the Mother-Daughter Relationship on Mexican-Origin Adolescent Girls' Sexual Agency
Author : Kali Saposnick Van Campen
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Page : 486 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2013
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Mexican-origin adolescent girls have some of the highest rates of unplanned teen pregnancy and births in the United States. Family ecological and feminist perspectives indicate that gender and sexual socialization processes contribute to girls' ability to promote their sexual health, yet little is known about how Mexican-origin girls develop sexual agency. In this culture, mothers are a primary socializing agent about sexuality in the family, and this study examined how mother-daughter sexual communication fostered or inhibited girls' sexual agency. The narrative method "scaffolded interviewing" was used to facilitate open talk about sexuality. Interviews were conducted with 25 girls ages 15-17 and separate interviews with mothers in a southwestern city, with a pilot study first conducted to refine the interview script. Mothers and daughters were asked reciprocal questions about what girls learned about sexuality from mothers and other contexts. The Listening Guide, a voice-based relational approach, was used to interpret the data. Analysis suggested that girls whose mothers provided more open and comprehensive sexual communication, and talked to them before puberty, felt more agentic to assert their needs for sexual safety. Girls who had infrequent, content-limited communication with mothers felt less able to manage fear-based school sex education messages and peer sexual exposure. Analysis of concordance between mothers' and daughters' narratives showed that different perceptions of what constitutes sex talk and sexual autonomy inhibited daughters' disclosure to mothers about sexual concerns. These findings suggest that mother-daughter relationships are critical for sexual health promotion. Implications for educators, practitioners, and families are discussed.
Surviving Your Child's Adolescence
Author : Carl Pickhardt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1118228839
Book Description
Expert suggestions for guiding your child through the rough teenage years Does it sometimes seem like your teenager is trying to push you over the edge? Learn what your child is going through and what you can do to help your teen navigate this difficult period in this practical guide from psychologist and parenting expert Carl Pickhardt. In an easy-to-read style, Dr. Pickhardt describes a 4-stage model of adolescent growth to help parents anticipate common developmental changes in their daughter or son from late elementary school through the college age years. Provides unique advice for dealing with arguing, chores, the messy room, homework, and many other issues Offers best practices for teaching effective communication, constructive conflict, and responsible decision-making Includes ideas for protecting kids against the dangers of the Internet, bullying, dating, sexual involvement, and substance use An essential road map for parents looking to guide their children on the path to adulthood.
Your Daughter's Bedroom
Author : Joyce T. T. McFadden
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0230120253
Book Description
Your Daughter's Healthy Identity Starts With You After psychoanalyst Joyce McFadden treated countless women who felt alone and isolated in experiences that they were unaware many other women were dealing with too, she began to ask what she could do to help them reach out to each other. The result was the launch of her Women's Realities Study in which she interviewed hundreds of women from ages 18-105, about the most private issues as she sought to understand what events in a woman's life impact her future happiness and self-confidence. What McFadden found was truly revealing— the theme that most interested them as they explored their identities was how their relationship with their mothers influenced their understanding of themselves as sexual beings throughout their lives—from the time they were little girls straight through adulthood. Drawing on over a thousand responses, Your Daughter's Bedroom offers a new and unprecedented look at the mother-daughter bond. McFadden argues that the type of womanhood mothers model for their daughters determines the young girls' comfort with their own bodies which, in turn, leads to confidence and satisfaction later in life. From the most mundane and everyday gestures—a reluctance to call body parts by their real name; an offhanded suggestion to lose weight— to how mothers introduce life altering events such as the start of puberty and sexual exploration, all of these have an impact on a girl's psyche. She found that in an attempt to protect and shield daughters, mothers withhold important information and leave girls to wrestle with their own bourgeoning sexuality and other challenges of growing up. Offering a fresh perspective on the fraught mother-daughter relationship, McFadden shows how mothers can create the right environment for their daughters to grow into self-assured women. Your Daughter's Bedroom is an essential resource for women who want to establish a more open and positive relationship with their daughters.
