Limited empirical evidence exists regarding longitudinal connections between parenting during childhood and adolescents’ sexual development. Using structural equation mediation modeling, this study examined how mothers’ parenting practices during childhood (ages 8 to 11) directly related to adolescent sexual outcomes (ages 12 to 16) and whether relationships were mediated by parenting practices persisting over time. Two waves of data were used from a large longitudinal national sample including 687 mother-adolescent pairs (M_age = 10.02, SD = 1.15, 50% female, 64% White) in 2002 and 2007. For boys, mothers’ knowledge of whereabouts and warmth during childhood had negative direct connections to later frequency of intercourse. However, no parallel connections were found for girls. For both boys and girls, mothers’ warmth during childhood was associated with an increased likelihood of sexual debut in adolescence. The findings highlight that parenting practices during childhood directly and indirectly (through parenting trajectories) shape sexual development of children.

关于童年养育与青少年性发育之间的纵向联系，实证证据有限。本研究使用结构方程中介模型，检验了母亲在儿童时期（8 至 11 岁）的养育方式如何与青少年性行为结果（12 至 16 岁）直接相关，以及这种关系是否由持续的养育方式所调节。使用了来自一个大型纵向全国样本的两波数据，其中包括 687 对母亲-青少年（M_年龄 = 10.02，SD = 1.15，50% 女性，64% 白人）在 2002 年和 2007 年。对于男孩来说，母亲在童年时期对行踪和温暖的了解与以后的性交频率有负直接联系。但是，并没有找到女孩的平行连接。对于男孩和女孩来说，童年时期母亲的温暖与青春期首次性行为的可能性增加有关。研究结果强调，童年时期的养育方式直接和间接（通过养育轨迹）影响了儿童的性发育。