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Repetition may be key to success in parent-child discussions about sex.(DIGESTS)(Survey)

The closeness of a parent-adolescent relationship and the quality of communication within that relationship are important predictors of teenagers' sexual risk-taking; evidence from a study of a program aimed at enhancing parent-child sexual communication suggests that parents' repetition of sex-related information may be a more important predictor of those relationship characteristics than the breadth of sexual communication. (1) The number of topics that teenagers said their parents addressed repeatedly in discussions related to sex was positively associated with the adolescents' perceptions of closeness with their parents, their ability to communicate with them in general ...

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