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Ask Dad and/or Mum. Parents as Key Facilitators: an Inclusive Approach to Sexual and Relationship Education on the Home Environment
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

Family learning is the learning between different generations that happens inside families. The term refers to the sharing of information, thoughts, feelings and experiences between parents and children. Much family learning goes on informally, however organized and planned activities can be of great help, especially on topics on which parents don’t feel confident or lack adequate knowledge. Parents have a profound influence on the development of sexual attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, especially in the years leading to early adolescence. Although parents want their children to be educated about sexuality, there appears to be a disconnect in parent-child communication on the subject. Parents report feeling inadequately prepared to discuss sexuality, and report discomfort in addressing certain topics with their children. Simply knowing “what” to discuss may be insufficient: parental openness, skill, knowledge of the topic, perceived self efficacy, self esteem, and comfort-level mediate the impact of parent-child communication on sexual behavior. Direct experience of partners and desk research over the Internet shows there are very few resources, all of North American origin, addressed to parents. This project wants to fill this gap by developing a methodology and materials: a Tool Kit to be used by parents as a stand alone resource or with support by trainers and educators, a training programme delivered face to face or at a distance, a Study on state of the art for parents as sex educators. As European countries differs widely in terms of frames of mind related to sexuality and sex and relationship education initiatives, methodology and materials, starting from a common concept, will be carefully tailored to national realities.Thanks to a thorough valorization plan over 20,000 people belonging to target groups will be informed about the project, 2000 will participate in it, over 600 parents and 120 trainers will be trained to use the Tool Kit.
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