Bh. Wade, THE GENDER-ROLE AND CONTRACEPTIVE ATTITUDES OF YOUNG MEN - IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES, The Urban League review, 16(2), 1993, pp. 57-65
This research reports the contraceptive and gender role attitudes of a
convenience sample of 60 working class African American youth enrolle
d in discussion groups in a clinical setting in Atlanta, Georgia. Most
of the youth were close to both parents and received considerable par
ental support. They were not, as a group, rape-prone or in favor of ab
ortion. The study found that only half of the youth received ''enough'
' information about contraception from either parent. Forty-three perc
ent felt that contraception was the female's responsibility and roughl
y 30 percent held strong anti-condom attitudes. The three most popular
contraceptive techniques were the condom, pill and condom/pill. There
was a significant difference in rating of the withdrawal technique be
tween those whose fathers had provided enough contraceptive informatio
n and those whose fathers did not. An inverse correlation existed betw
een rating of the pill and condom and rating of pregnancy as a positiv
e event. Moreover, the more contraceptive information provided by the
mother, the lower was the contraceptive attitudes score.