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Youth Assets and Sexual Risk Behavior: The Importance Of Assets for Youth Residing in One-Parent Households


  Author: Roy F. Oman, Sara K. Vesely, Cheryl B. Aspy
Publisher: The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Publication: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 37, No. 1
Document Date:                  March 2005
Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Youth
Related Categories:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Sexual Activity
Adolescence/Youth > Peer Relations
 

This report explores the ways in which the sexual risk behaviour of youth in single-parent families is affected by their aspirations for the future, health practices, peer role models, and family communication.  It finds that these assets significantly predict youth sexual behaviour.

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