By Adaobi, Ibegbu
This etudy aawsaed the extent of parental
involvement in sex education of the youths in Onitsha
?,ccql Go~nrnmnt Area of Anambra State, Specif kcally,
31e study aestm~ed the extent t o which par?nts engage
dn sex education instruction of t-heir children/warda at hame
the extent t o which parents provide materialss and texts for
Loex education and the extent t o which parents assist and
motfvste schools in the* sex education pmgram,
Four reaearch queetiona and two hypotheees gulded
ths atudg. Tbt sample comprised of aix hundred reeearch
subjects (320 malea a d 30C, femalee) drawn from the
O a i t s h a Local Gwernmant Area of ~nambra Sfate. This was
achievwd through a stratified random sampUbg prwedura.
l?~tma ra coUected uelng the parents sax education
imolvement sseeasment acale which was dewloped snd
vrrlldatod by the reeearcher. mta weFe 9m3_T759.d
rnc.&n, standard deviation and chi-aqazre test of irdepende=e.
Samary of data allscl.ysia reveal t h ~ pta rents are not
a.ctfvsly involved in sex education instruct;ion of their
yuths at 9086, In the prwision af sex education md
sel f fr?wtrtzctional matesials f o t~ h ~yo uths and in
ofierfng su~port to schooBo in their sex edccation