Evaluation of a Sex Education Program for Children and Their Parents: Attitude and Interactional Changes

Within a small group of ten- and eleven-year-old children, and a separate group of their parents, changes occurred in attitudes and in parent-child communications following participation in a planned sex education program. Attitude changes, objectively measured, pointed to movement in both groups fr...

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Published in:Family coordinator 1971-10, Vol.20 (4), p.377-386
Main Authors: Carton, Jacqueline, Carton, John
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Attitude scales
Children
Elementary school students
Human sexual behavior
Parents
Posttests
Pretests
Public schools
Sex education
Sexual self stimulation
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Human sexual behavior
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Pretests
Public schools
Sex education
Sexual self stimulation
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