%0 Journal Article %T The Characteristics and Relationship of Parental Sexual Knowledge and Sex Education Attitude to Young Children %A Xin Jin %J Creative Education %P 2002-2010 %@ 2151-4771 %D 2021 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ce.2021.129153 %X Parents¡¯ sufficient and correct sexual knowledge and positive attitude towards sex education are the prerequisites for carrying out family sex education. Through a questionnaire survey on the sexual knowledge and attitudes towards sex education of 1729 parents of children in senior classes (5 - 6 years old), the study found that parents¡¯ sexual knowledge and sex education attitude were generally good, but the dimensions were uneven. Among them, the ¡°children development¡± dimension of sex knowledge was the lowest, and the ¡°obstacles of sex education¡± dimension was the lowest in the attitude of sex education; among the three background variables of parent¡¯s gender, age and education background, the main effect of parent¡¯s gender and education back- ground on sexual knowledge and attitude towards sex education were significant. %K Parents of Young Children %K Sexual Knowledge %K Sex Education Attitude %K Characteristics %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=111750