Association between Quality of Parent-Adolescent Relationship and Adolescent Sexual Activity

Jazmin Alvarez

Jazmin Alvarez Izaguirre is a senior at Wesleyan University double-majoring in the College of Education Studies and Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Minor in Global Engagement. She is originally from Houston, TX. Interested in women’s public health and culturally responsive teaching, she selected this research topic because of her interest in visualizing and classifying gendered differences in parental relationships and adolescents’ sexual decision-making, especially as it pertains to her home state, where teaching sexual health education is banned in classroom settings and women’s reproductive rights continue to be restricted by law.