title: Is Perceived Parental Monitoring Associated with Sexual Risk Behaviors of Young Black Males?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study determined whether perceived parental monitoring (PPM) is associated with any of twelve selected outcomes related to sexual risk behaviors of young Black males (YBM).
  
  
  METHODS
  Recruitment occurred in clinics diagnosing and treating sexually transmitted infections. YBM living with a parent or guardian (N = 324) were administered a 9-item scale assessing level of PPM. The obtained range was 10 - 45, with higher scores representing more frequent monitoring.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean was 29.3 (sd=7.0). Eight of the twelve outcomes had significant associations with PPM (all in a direction indicating a protective effect). Of these eight, five retained significance in age-adjusted models were ever causing a pregnancy, discussing pregnancy prevention, safer sex, and condom use with sex partners, and using a condom during the last act of penile-vaginal sex.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Monitoring by a parent figure may be partly protective against conceiving a pregnancy for Black males 15-23 years of age.
authors.affiliation: College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky ; The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Crosby
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans.
authors.forename: Ivy
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Terrell
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans.
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pasternak
keywords: Condoms; parental monitoring; sex; sexual behavior; sexually transmitted diseases; young Black men