Talking About Sex

Something of interest to some of you: the National Study of Youth and Religion's report on a new study, Talking About Sex: Religion and Patterns of Parent-Child Communication about Sex and Contraception. Its major findings, in the NSYR's summary:

parents' public religiosity is negatively associated with talking to their teenage children about sex and birth control. In other words, parents who attend religious services on a regular basis are less likely than parents who rarely or never attend religious services to talk to their children about sex and birth control.

and

While parents who regularly attend religious services are less likely than other parents to talk to their teenage children about sex and birth control, they are more likely than other parents to talk to their children about the morality of adolescent sexual involvement.