Table 3.

Reasons Why White Parents Did Not Discuss Current Events Involving Racism

	Police Brutality Against Black Youth (2019)	White Supremacism in America (2019)	May/June Protests Against Police Brutality Toward Black Americans (2020)	Deaths of Black Americans Killed by Police (2020)
	n = 68	n = 64	n = 22	n = 25
Sheltering from negativity	2.9%	3.1%	4.5%	12%
Adolescent has not asked/it has not come up	54.4%	40.6%	13.6%	20%
Unnecessary/do not want to	25%	31.3%	40.9%	36%
Unsure/uninformed	2.9%	10.9%	18.2%	16%
Too difficult	4.4%	0%	4.5%	4%
Other	13.2%	7.8%	9.1%	0%
No reason provided	0.8%	0%	9.1%	12%

Note. Percentages may add up to more than 100 due to a small number of parents voicing more than one reason for not discussing an event.