Parental Responsibility forChildren’s Sexuality Education: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Background: Sexuality education has become a crucial aspect of upbringing in this modern era. It is important for parents to recognize the vulnerability of their children to poor sexual health outcomes and to educate them early in life about sexual literacy. It is crucial to address this problem by highlighting the sexuality education from an Islamic perspective and to emphasize on sexuality education in hadith literature as a guidance for the parents. Rather than engaging in normative Islamic jurisprudential analysis, this bibliometric methods was used to systematically map the intellectual structure, and scholarly influence of Islamically framed research on parental responsibility in sexuality education. Methods: This bibliometric analysis aims to determine the research trends, collaborative networks and to assess evidence on parents’ practices regarding delivering sexuality information to adolescents. The electronic database Scopus was searched using “sexuality information," "parent-child," and "communication," to find the articles, relevant books or book chapters published between 2010 and 2025.

Results: Out of 195 retrieved articles, 83 met the minimum citation threshold. The most cited study is Usonwu and Mullis published in 2021 receiving 51 & 36 citations respectively. The United States leads in publications, with medicine (57.9%) as the dominant field. Emerging themes in sexual education research include awareness, abortion, and parental support, indicating shifting academic priorities and growing interest in these areas. Conclusion: This review highlights current trends, influential articles, and key authorship in the field of sexual education, while also identifying future research directions.