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Table 3.

Differences in parental sexual knowledge and communication by gender.

Parent Gender	General Communication		Sexual Communication		Comfort with Communication		Total Knowledge

	Mean	STD	Mean	STD	Mean	STD	Mean	STD
Female	3.96	0.62	3.11	1.04	3.47	0.74	15.92	3.68
Male	3.91	0.52	2.82	0.94	3.48	0.81	17.34	3.61
F statistics	0.58		8.56		0.03		16.19
Significance	0.445		0.004		0.868		0.000