Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—November 30, 2015. Numerous medical associations advocate for increased parental involvement and monitoring to help reduce sexual risk behavior. In a meta-analysis in the December 2015 Pediatrics (published online Nov. 30), “Parental Monitoring and Its Associations with Adolescent Sexual Risk Behavior: a Meta-analysis,” researchers examined studies published in medical journals published in English between 1984 and 2014 to determine the association between parental monitoring and adolescent sexual intercourse, condom use, and contraceptive use.
