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Knowledge about Sexual Matters in Delinquent Girls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Mary Carter*
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children, Westburn Drive

Extract

This paper describes a study of the sources and content of ideas concerning sex and reproduction held by adolescent girls in an approved school. The inquiry arose as the result of a question asked in a discussion group of psychiatrists as to how boys and girls normally acquired information about sex.

Type
Personality Disorders and Personality Measurements
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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References

Schofield, M. (1965). The Sexual Behaviour of Young People. London: Longmans.Google Scholar
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