Table 1.

Percentage of Adolescents Who Reported Parental Conversation on Sexual Topics

Teens reported the amount of time that the parents talked with them about sexual topics	Never talked	Once or twice	A few times	A lot of times	N
Talk about dating/going out with boy/girl friends	19.5%	27.9%	25.3%	27.3%	386
Talk about body changes when grew up	18.4%	31.9%	27.7%	22.1%	376
Talk about what sexual intercourse is	56.7%	24.4%	10.9%	8.0%	349
Talk about not having sex until getting ready or older	57.1%	23.1%	12.0%	7.8%	359
Talk about condoms or birth control pills	71.8%	15.5%	7.3%	5.4%	355
Talk about HIV/AIDS/STIs	50.0%	28.8%	9.6%	11.0%	364
Talk about the difficulty of teenagers having babies	40.7%	28.6%	12.7%	18.1%	371
Talk about how important to stay virgin (for girls)	36.9%	28.9%	13.9%	20.3%	187
Talk about how important not to get girls pregnant (for boys)	60.6%	17.2%	8.3%	13.9%	180