¿Cuáles son los primeros mensajes sobre sexo que enviamos a nuestros hijos?

摘要

The family plays a fundamental role in the transmission and learning of gender roles. Therefore,the aim of this study was to explore what messages transmitted from parents to their children at early ages of development. Data was collected through 8 of CIACS-1 (Ballester and Gil, 1999) in asample of 332 parents of children between 4 and 8 years from Valencian Community (Spain). Theresults indicate that 27,2% held the belief that children should play right things to their sex, 18,1%distributed household by gender and 13,5% believe that masturbation is bad for health. Moreover,less than half of the sample claimed to have spoken with your child about sexual topics. This percentageincreases as the children grow older, taking a significant change around 5-6 years. No statisticallysignificant differences were found by gender, so we can consider that the parents in our sampleare not differentiated information if boy or girl. In conclusion, it is important to design preventionprograms aimed at parents who contribute to the transformation of the stereotypical conceptions.