Sexual Health of Adolescents and Family Communications

In this chapter, Author intends to analyze the relationship between sexual behavior of university students, risk behavior related to sexuality and the role of parents. In the conversation between parents and children, sex is still too often forbidden. This is an issue since children know little or nothing about sexually transmitted diseases, which, according to the Higher Institute of Health, are growing. Adolescents are also unconcerned about the risk of contracting HIV. Many parents still avoid these conversations due to uncertainty or lack of confidence in how to best educate their children on topics such as sexual health and relationships. The data comes from two surveys conducted in 2000 and 2017, with logistic regression as the method of choice. The goal of this study is to validate the following two hypotheses while also controlling the change in young people's behavior over time: (i) The more the parents communicate with their children, the less are the risks for the adolescents; (ii) the more the risk behavior in the domains of alcohol, drug and driving, the more are the sexual risks for the adolescents.