Beyond the yes-no question: measuring parent-adolescent communication about sex.

The measurement of sex-related communications has improved in recent years in several ways: more differentiated self-report measures, the use of multiple reporters, the situating of sex-related communication within the context of general communication, and the use of innovative measures such as observational methods and ethnographic techniques.

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