Presentation of the Article: Residential Mobility and the Onset of Adolescent Sexual Activity

Presentation of the Article: Residential Mobility and the Onset of Adolescent Sexual Activity

Major Points of the Article

The four major points explained in the article include

Individual Risk behavior

Relationship Factors of Parent and Child

Psychological Wellbeing

Peer Social Networks

Explanation of major points

Individual Risk behavior

Residential and school mobility has been reported to cause an increase in the risk of sexual activity in adolescents. A number of reasons have been presented for the said shift, and it has also been reported that shift in residential area or school causes adolescents to become shy and timid, with less interest in studies and other activities and more inclination towards sexual activities. These shifts thus cause shift in the individual risk behavior and also induces delinquent behavior.

Parent-Child Relationship

Among all the relations that the human beings have, parent child relationship really matters and has the most essential influence on the behavior and attitude of the adolescents. The child parent relationship could either be mobile or non mobile, and that effects the orientation of child accordingly. A number of social relations, including peer group, teachers and other relatives influence the development of child but parents play the most essential role in this regard and thus are responsible for the major positive or negative developments.

Psychological Well-Being 

As evident from the title itself, the psychological well being of the child is as important as the psychological well being and greatly effects the development of the child. The change in atmosphere, either residential of school behavior influences the behavior as well as development of the child and might have positive or negative influence. The changes might result in facing difficulties in getting hold of the environment, he might fall victim to distress and loneliness and use sex as a way of getting rid of the ...