Due to the negative outcomes of adolescent risky behavior considerable public health investment has focused on prevention of peer influence especially in low income communities [1][2][3]. Unplanned pregnancy, substance abuse, and school dropout continue to pose considerable public health risk for Hispanic teens, especially those in rural areas [4,5]. Rural adolescents are likelier than their urban counterparts to become pregnant, abuse drugs during high school and drop out, [6,7] with little known about how to prevent this phenomenon among rural Hispanic adolescents. Hispanics are about 13% of the population but will become one quarter of the population by 2050. The purpose of this study was to explore what promotes or inhibits rural Mexican parents from talking with their adolescents about prevention of risky behavior and its consequences (pregnancy, substance abuse and school dropout). The University of California Davis Institutional Review Board approved this study (# 471395-2).Studies in urban communities have established the importance of the family social environment to prevention of risky adolescent behavior. Researchers have found parents are potential sources of knowledge that may mitigate the negative effects of peers through their conversations about such behavior [8]. Parents, especially Hispanic, are thought to provide a normative influence by verbally transmitting respect for family values that approve or disapprove their adolescent's behavior [9][10][11], by shaping their attitudes, beliefs, and norms [12].
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