Communicating with their children about sex: Concerns expressed online by Japanese Parents

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  • インターネットを利用した子どもの性に関連した親の悩み

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The purpose of this study was to understand the concerns that parents posted onto an internet bulletin board about their children’s sex-related challenges/issues. This work provided insight into parents’ perspectives and may ultimately lead to the creation of programs to support families with children. Internet bulletin board posts related to parents’ communications about sex with their children were extracted between January 2013 and December 2017. Then the posts were analyzed by categorizing them using a qualitative inductive method. As a result of the analysis, the following three categories were extracted: “How to appropriately respond to children who are interested in sexuality,” “Difficulties related to parents’ views concerning talking to their children about sex,” and “How to carry out sex education at home.” Our findings suggest that to facilitate home-based sex education, it is necessary 298 to provide parents with knowledge about children’s sexuality. It is crucial to consider the views and roles of each family member, supporting the participation of both fathers and mothers, and include single-parent households. In addition, as a part of the framework of general child-rearing support provided by municipalities, we believe that it is important to inform parents about how to face and deal with children's sexuality at home as a way to build relationships between parents and young pre-school children. Moreover, it is desirable for parents to have a point of contact with professionals so that they can easily ask questions about the specifics of sex education at home and to have places and opportunities where they can talk with other parents.

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