The Characteristics and Relationship of Parental Sexual Knowledge and Sex Education Attitude to Young Children

Abstract

Parents’ sufficient and correct sexual knowledge and positive attitude towards sex 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 and education background, the main effect of parent’s gender and education back- ground on sexual knowledge and attitude towards sex education were significant.