Rethinking Three Decades of Ascribing Offspring’s Precocious and High-Risk Sexual Behavior to Absentee Father Parenting Households
Rethinking Three Decades of Ascribing Offspring’s Precocious and High-Risk Sexual Behavior to Absentee Father Parenting Households
P. Belcastro
TLDR
This study contrasted high-risk sexual behavior of offspring reared in a birth mother, birth father, or birth-parents household with the undergraduate convenience sample, finding daughters’ high- risk sexual behavior was less likely a consequence of birth father parenting absence and more likely a consequences of the birth mother parenting experience.
Abstract
Purportedly, offspring reared in birth-father absentee households exhibit precocious sexual maturation and proscribed sexual behaviors. This study contrasted high-risk sexual behavior of offspring reared in a birth mother, birth father, or birth-parents household. The undergraduate convenience sample represented 7.6% of the college enrolment. Sons reared by birth fathers reported a precocious age initiation for coitus-yet with the least number of lifetime coital partners compared to sons reared by birth mothers or birth parents. Daughters parented by birth mothers were 1.5 times more likely to experience first coitus by age 17 and had significantly more lifetime coital partners compared to daughters parented by birth fathers. Daughters’ high-risk sexual behavior was less likely a consequence of birth father parenting absence and more likely a consequence of the birth mother parenting experience.