Parents feel pressurised to explain sex and relationships to their children at an increasingly younger age, research has shown. A survey by for AVG Technology has found parents explaining adult relationships to seven-year-olds.
Primary school children explained the nature of adult relationships to Good Morning Britain after it emerged parents were having frank discussions about the facts of life with their children at a younger age.
Seven out of 10 British children have had a frank discussion with their parents by the age of 11, a survey has found.
The AVG Technology survey found:
Parents feel increasingly under pressure to explain the finer points of adult relationships to their children, research has shown.
Read: TV shows 'should carry warnings' to protect children
A survey from AVG Technology found parents were explaining sex and relationships to their children when they were still in primary school, with some as young as seven.
The overwhelming majority (78%) said they felt obliged to have this conversation with their children when they were so young because of what they may be exposed to on the internet.
Most parents confessed to having the facts of life chat with their child a full five years before their mum and dad had filled them in.