       Document 1003
 DOCN  M9621003
 TI    Early childhood differentials in mother-child AIDS-information
       interaction.
 DT    9602
 AU    Sly DF; Riehman K; Wu C; Eberstein I; Quadagno D; Kistner J; Center for
       the Study of Population, Florida State University,; Tallahassee
       32306-4063, USA.
 SO    AIDS Educ Prev. 1995 Aug;7(4):337-54. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96026587
 AB    To date there have been no systematic inquiries into 1) the extent of
       parent-child AIDS interaction; or 2) the factors that influence whether
       young children and their parents talk about AIDS. In our sample, from a
       medium-sized Southern metropolitan area, 70 percent of mothers of
       children in the first, third, and fifth grades said they had talked to
       their child about AIDS, but only 41 percent of the mothers said their
       child had asked them questions about AIDS. Fourteen hypotheses about
       factors which might influence mother-child AIDS interaction are derived
       from the health/sex socialization literature. In the process of testing
       these bivariate hypotheses it is shown that, although sons and daughters
       are equally likely to ask their mother questions about AIDS, mothers are
       more likely to talk to their daughters than their sons about AIDS. This
       pattern maintains even after controls are introduced. It is suggested
       that discussing AIDS with young children as a health issue rather than
       waiting until adolescence and discussing it as a sex issue may be a more
       effective socialization route. Mothers may be able to do this with young
       daughters in the context of women's health, but because most AIDS
       education for adults generally is sex- rather than health-oriented they
       may lack the knowledge and framework to do this with their sons.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  Adult  Blacks/EDUCATION/PSYCHOLOGY
       Child  Child, Preschool  Female  Gender Identity  *Health Education
       Human  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male  Middle Age  *Mother-Child
       Relations  Sampling Studies  Sex Education  Social Environment
       Socioeconomic Factors  Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
       Whites/EDUCATION/PSYCHOLOGY  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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