Reproductive behavior Youth development Family communication Behavioral influence Survey research Quantitative study Descriptive statistics Simple random sampling Health education Adolescent health

The study investigated the knowledge of the influence of parent-adolescent communication on teenage pregnancy among undergraduates of university of Benin, Nigeria. The study had three objectives. The first objective was to find out how parents communicate sexual and reproductive information with adolescents and its influence on their behavior. The second objective was to assess the influence of parent-adolescent communication on sexual and reproductive behavior. Lastly the study was to identify the challenges of parent-adolescent communication and their influence on sexual and reproductive behavior. The target population of this study comprised students in the university. Simple Random sampling technique was used to select the students and adolescents who participated in the study. Quantitative data was collected from respondents through the survey method using a questionnaire. It was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study found out that 50.7%, of the adolescents were exposed to sex education while 32.3% of the parents had exposed their children to sex education.
Parent-adolescent communication on sex issues occurred at the point where the adolescents had enrolled to institutions of learning. Parent-adolescent communication on sex issues was found to occur regularly as thirty-nine percent of adolescents received sex education monthly, twelve percent received sex education weekly however nine percent never received sex education. On the other hand twenty four percent of parents give sex education monthly, nine percent gives sex education weekly but nine percent never give sex education. A slight variance was found to exist on the awareness about adolescent‘s sexual activeness between household heads and the adolescents.