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The Effects of Family Instability on Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation

The Effects of Family Instability on Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation. Jessie Neel. Research Question . Does family instability affect adolescents’ age at sexual initiation? . Family Structures . V astly changing over 60 years Divorce Stepfamilies Nonmarital childbirths Cohabitation

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The Effects of Family Instability on Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation

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  1. The Effects of Family Instability on Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation Jessie Neel

  2. Research Question Does family instability affect adolescents’ age at sexual initiation?

  3. Family Structures • Vastly changing over 60 years • Divorce • Stepfamilies • Nonmarital childbirths • Cohabitation • 50% of children will spend time in single-parent homes before 18 • 40% of children will spend time in cohabitating families

  4. Family Instability • Defined as adding and exiting of mothers’ partners • Negatively affects adolescents’ well-beings • Family transitions cause changes in • Family income • Parental expectations • Normal routines • Housing locations • Increases adolescents’ levels of delinquency and depression

  5. Adolescents’ Dating Relationships • Increasing rates of “hooking up” • 50% of high school students had sex in nondating relationships • Motivations for adolescents' sexual initiation • Romantic partners • Low income schools • Low rates of parental monitoring • Linked to • Behavioral problems • Substance abuse • School detachment

  6. Family Instability Affecting Adolescents’ Sexual Initiation • Women engaged in sex earlier if they experienced family instability and transitions • More frequent family transitions influence earlier age of adolescents’ sexual initiation • Why? • Socialization perspective • Different beliefs on nonmarital sex • Social control perspective • Different amounts of exposure to sex • Instability and control perspective • Different amounts of stress due to instability

  7. Suggestions for Future Research Will “hooking up” eventually overshadow dating relationships? Does family instability have a similar influence on the age of adolescents’ marriage? Do adolescents who have experienced more family instability divorce and marry more often?

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