Parents' views on sex education in schools: How much do Democrats and Republicans agree?
Parents' views on sex education in schools: How much do Democrats and Republicans agree?
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0180250
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Levitz N
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作者：
Kantor L;Levitz N
超过93%的家长高度重视初中和高中的性教育。初中和高中的性教育得到了父母的广泛支持，无论他们的政治派别如何。我们使用了来自1,633名9至21岁儿童父母的大量不同样本的数据，研究了父母的政治派别是否会对性教育产生不同的看法。超过89%的共和党人或民主党人支持在性教育中包括广泛的主题，包括青春期，健康的关系，禁欲，性传播疾病（STD）和高中节育。在中学，78%或更多的共和党和民主党父母支持将这些主题纳入其中。控制关键的人口因素，被认定为民主党人的父母比那些被认定为共和党人的父母更有可能支持在初中和高中纳入健康关系，节育，性病和性取向等主题。然而，绝大多数共和党父母希望所有这些话题都包括在性教育中。性教育包括一系列广泛的主题，是两个政党的父母之间达成强烈一致的领域。
More than 93 percent of parents place high importance on sex education in both middle and high school. Sex education in middle and high school is widely supported by parents regardless of their political affiliation. Using data from a large diverse sample of 1,633 parents of children aged 9 to 21 years, we examined whether views on sex education differed by parents’ political affiliation. More than 89 percent of parents that identified as Republicans or Democrats support including a wide range of topics in sex education including puberty, healthy relationships, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and birth control in high school. In middle school, 78 percent or more of both parents that identified as Republicans and Democrats support the inclusion of those topics. Controlling for key demographic factors, parents that identified as Democrats are more likely than those that identified as Republicans to support the inclusion of the topics of healthy relationships, birth control, STDs, and sexual orientation in both middle and high school. However, a strong majority of Republican parents want all these topics included in sex education. Sex education which includes a broad set of topics represents an area of strong agreement between parents of both political parties.