Guarantees of the right to protection and special care oriented to Guarantees of the right to protection and special care oriented to the salvadoran adolescent sexuality

Abstract

This research focused on conducting a diagnosis of the degree of compliance of the guarantees of right for the protection and special care of Salvadorean adolescents oriented to their sexuality and to establish the influential factors that mostly violate their right to sexual and reproductive health, in compliance to Art. 32 of the Child and Youth Integral Protection Act (Ley de Protección Integral de la Niñez y Adolescencia, Lepina, given its Spanish acronym).

The population included Salvadorian adolescents ages 12 through 18, from the fourteen departments of the country; they were randomly selected via a simple stratified sampling, with a confidence of 95% and a margin of error of 2%. This is a descriptive research that used probabilistic sampling and surveys (Montero y León, 2007).

Amongst the most relevant findings we can mention the fact that the youth do perceive having received sexual education and training, while their sexual health practices show low medians. Both the Church and the school tend to positively serve as referents in sexual education for the youngest students; the internet allows adolescents ample access to sexual related content; parental control over kids decreases in relation to the number of years the latter ones complete at school; finally, there is a median level of confidence in the orientation parents give their children towards these topics.

Entorno, mayo 2017, número 63: 24-38