On delaying teen sex

[I realise I will have to reorganise my blog site, to include a category on notes. Notes would be like raw stuff I come across but may later process into a blog]

If you are a parent, this quote from Ahna Ballonoff Suleiman and others, in their article entitled "Becoming a sexual being: The ‘elephant in the room’ of adolescent brain development" might just blow your mind:

Complementing neuroscience research on parent-child relationships,
behavioral research has found that positive parent-adolescent
relationships are associated with decreased intention to
have sex and later age at first sexual intercourse (Van de Bongardt
et al., 2014), and adolescents who perceive their parents to be caring
have delayed first sex (Longmore et al., 2009). Youth who report
having positive relationships and open communication with their
parents also have less sexual experience, increased condom use
(Parkes et al., 2011), later sexual debut (Price and Hyde, 2008),
fewer unintended teen pregnancies (Miller et al., 2001) and fewer
sexual partners (Kan et al., 2010; Kerpelman et al., 2016).

I will break this down in a future blog post