| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals Series |
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Routledge Revivals Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Methods -- Response to the postal screen and interview approach -- Interview response -- The interviewers -- The interviews -- The interviews with mothers and fathers -- The teenagers -- Chapter 2: Sexual Behaviour -- Attitudes to sex before marriage -- Sexual experience -- Use of birth control -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Knowledge of Birth Control and Venereal Disease and Attitudes to Abortion |
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Experiences of pregnanry and abortion -- Attitudes to abortion -- Knowledge of venereal disease -- Young people who thought they had venereal disease -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Sources of Information about Sex and Birth Control -- First recollections of 'learning' about reproduction -- Age of first learning about reproduction -- Learning about sexual intercourse -- Books and media -- Learning about birth control -- Summary -- Chapter 5: What did Mother Say? -- Learning about periods -- Topics in focus -- Learning about birth control within the family -- Social class |
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Chapter 6: Parents' Beliefs and Actions -- Parents' views of who should tell boys and girls about reproduction and sexual intercourse -- Parents' actions or omissions -- The best way to learn -- Beliefs and actions about birth control -- Beliefs and actions in relation to venereal disease -- Parents' views of premarital sex -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Family Relationships -- Talking to each other about reproduction -- Attitudes to sex before marriage -- Attitudes to abortion -- Family relationships and communication -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Sex Education in School -- Problems of definition |
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Sex education in primary school -- Sex education in secondary scohol -- Subject teachers and sex education -- Use of outside speakers for sex education -- Sex education teacher's sex -- Aids to learning -- lnformal opportunities for learning about sex from teachers in school -- Lessons at school on birth control -- Reactions to sex education lessons -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Home and School -- Teachers as a first source of information -- Parents' views of the school's role in sex education -- Summary -- Chapter 10: My Friend Told Me -- Learning about reproduction from friends |
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Friends as a source of information about birth control -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Friendships and Leisure Activities -- Sexual experience and friendship -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Doctors, Teenagers and Contraception -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Learning, Satisfaction and Experience -- Views about their sex education -- Views about their knowledge of birth control -- Sources and behaviour -- Does learning matter? -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Conclusions -- Sexual experience -- Methods of birth control -- The age of consent -- Venereal diseases -- Use of birth control services -- Learning about sex |
| Summary |
Based on over 1500 interviews with a national random sample of 16- to 19-year-olds in 1974-5, first published in 1978, My Mother Said... examines the sources of information encountered by young people during their early years which helped or hindered them in their acquisition of knowledge about sex and birth control |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Parents and schools |
| Subject |
Sex instruction -- Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040025499 |
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1040025498 |
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