In Dittus and Jaccard (2000) study there were 10,000 students that ranged from seventh to eleventh grade who completed two interviews in their home at a one year internal. Dittus and (2000) found that there were mostly African American and Mexican students who were most satisfied with the relationship with their mother, and who accepted their mothers’ attitudes as disapproving of premarital sex were less to initiate sexual activity or become pregnant. When a child has good communication skills with their parents it has also has a less risk of indulging into risky sex. There was a study given by Holtzman and Rubinson (1995) which made a sample of 8,098 high school students, parents who communicated with their children about Human Immunodeficiency Virus were less likely to have had multiple partners, unprotected sex, or to indulge into …show more content…
Family religiosity is also related to risky sexual intercourse, and contraception has been known to be related to this (p.663). Adolescent religiosity has also been shown to be related to later onset of sexual intercourse and found that low religiosity was a predictor for sexual intercourse (Perkins, Luster, Villarruel, & Small, 1998, p.663). There was confirmation that this was true for Caucasian and Latino males but not for African American males, and found a similar result for females (Perkins, Luster, Villarruel, & Small, 1998, p.664). There were even more sites that explained the different religions and traditions of sexuality. In some religious traditions, sexual behavior is regarded as primarily spiritual. In other religions it is treated as primarily physical. Some religions hold sexual behavior is only spiritual within certain kinds of relationships (Nature and Purpose of Sexuality, n.d., para.1). There was also a part in the article that discussed about the restrictions on religious sexual partners that include: proscribing all sexual behavior; limiting sexual behavior to relationships blessed by the religious institution; suggesting strongly that sexual behavior be limited to partners in a loving, committed relationship; and or teaching that sexual relationships are complicated and should only be entered into with