TITLE:
The Characteristics and Relationship of Parental Sexual Knowledge and Sex Education Attitude to Young Children
AUTHORS:
Xin Jin
KEYWORDS:
Parents of Young Children, Sexual Knowledge, Sex Education Attitude, Characteristics
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.12 No.9,
September
7,
2021
ABSTRACT: Parents’ sufficient and correct sexual knowledge and positive attitude towardssex education are the prerequisites for carrying out family sex education.Through a questionnaire survey on the sexual knowledge and attitudes towards sex education of 1729 parents of children in senior classes(5- 6 years old), the study found that parents’ sexual knowledge and sex education attitude were generally good, but the dimensions were uneven. Among them, the “children development” dimension of sex knowledge was the lowest, and the “obstacles of sex education” dimension was the lowest in the attitude of sex education; among the three background variables of parent’s gender, age andeducation background, the main effect of parent’s gender and educationback- ground on sexual knowledge and attitude towards sex education were significant.