Parental discourses in sexual education

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

19 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

09/23/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Abstract
Introduction
Analysis of Marsman and Herrold (1986)'s survey
Controversial aspects of sex
Ashcraft (2006)'s study on the discourse of readiness
Analysis of the study by Afifi, Joseph, and Aldeis
Analysis of Feldman and Rosenthal's 2000 study
Research design
1. Semi-structured interviews with junior/senior high school girls
2. Lack of confidence among the students
3. Interview of with the parents
4. Awkwardness in the interviews
5. Judgment
6. Forssberg's intention
7. The lines of questioning
8. Openness of the answers
Ashcraft's view
Conclusion
Final thoughts
Appendix I: Parental interview questions
Bibliography

Abstract

Teen pregnancy is a pressing crisis throughout the world, the United States, and Knox County. A gap in expectations between which topics parents should address and which schools should address may be partially to blame; while most parents believe that they should be the loudest voice in their children's sexual education, many of them do not take on that role. Through semi-structured interviews with parents, their junior high-aged daughters, and an after-school group of junior high-aged girls, I attempt to identify how parents' conceptions of their responsibilities to and relationships with their daughters and their understanding of what the schools are doing combine with daughters' perceptions of these efforts and their parents' attitudes to make The Talk more or less successful.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2007, the number of teenagers bearing children in the United States rose for the first time in 14 years. In 2009, the Heartland Alliance Report calculated the teen birth rate at 42 births per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 19, higher than the statewide average of 39.5 per thousand (Timmons, 2009). One reason for that may be the Bush administration's decision to provide federal funding only for sexual education programs that adhere to an abstinence-only curriculum, but I hypothesize that a gap between what schools are expected to teach and what parents consider themselves responsible to teach is also a factor.