http://e-journal.unair.ac.id/JNERS | 553 Jurnal Ners Vol. 15, No. 2, Special Issue 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jn.v15i2(si).20536 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Original Research The Relationship between Parenting Style and Sexual Behavior before Marriage in Teenagers Zubaidah Zubaidah, Insana Maria, and Rusdiana Rusdiana STIKES Intan Martapura, South Borneo, Indonesia ABSTRACT Introduction: The purpose of this study was to learn about the relationship between parent style and sexual behavior before marriage among the teenagers in SMKN 3 Banjarbaru. Methods: The design of this study was analytical with a cross-sectional approach. The population consisted of 810 teen classes X, XI, XII with the sample totaling as many as 226 teen classes X and XII in SMKN 3 Banjarbaru. The sample was determined using a stratified random sampling technique. The independent variable was parenting style and the dependent variable was sexual behavior before marriage. The data was collected using a questionnaire. The analysis was done using Spearman Rho. Results: Sex before marriage is a bad behavior. Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between the parenting style used and sex before marriage in terms of the behavior of teenagers in SMKN 3 Banjarbaru. ARTICLE HISTORY Received: Feb 27, 2020 Accepted: April 1, 2020 KEYWORDS premarital sex; parenting; teens CONTACT Insana Maria  maria.insana82@gmail.com  STIKES Intan Martapura, South Borneo, Indonesia Cite this as: Zubaidah, Z., Maria,I., & Rusdiana, R. (2020). The Relationship between Parenting Style and Sexual Behavior before Marriage in Teenagers. Jurnal Ners, Special Issues, 553-556. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jn.v15i2(si).20536 INTRODUCTION Modernization has brought in shifts in the social norms, especially those of adolescents, including their sexual behavior (Nurmala, Ahiyanasari, Wulandari, & Pertiwi, 2019). Premarital sexual behavior is a common behavior in adolescence (Pradanie, Armini, & Untari, 2020). The high curiosity of adolescents about human sexual life makes them look for information about sex, whether it is through books, films or pictures that are done clandestinely. This is done by adolescents due to a lack of dialogic communication between adolescents and adults, both parents and teachers, about sexual problems. Most people still consider it taboo to discuss sexual problems in daily life (Kusmiran, 2011). Sexual behavior among teenagers tends to have a negative connotation, even though it naturally has many different meanings. Sexual behavior is a behavior that aims to attract the attention of the opposite sex. Examples include dressing up, rolling the eyes, seducing, teasing and whistling. Sexual activity is an activity that is carried out in an effort to fulfill a sexual urge or it is an activity to get pleasure or sexual activity. Examples of sexual behavior include fantasizing, menstruating, kissing on the cheeks, kissing on the lips, petting and having sex. The parents often complain because there is no sense of responsibility. It is difficult to expect that the parents are responsible for their children's sexual behavior. Parenting style refers to certain parenting patterns. The use of parenting contributes to the development of the social behavior of children. Parenting is influenced by two factors, namely the internal and external factors (Adawiyyah, 2016). According to the data from the World Health Organization (WHO), 41% of the 208 pregnancies worldwide are unplanned. As many as 11% of this number were births to women aged 15-19 years old. This shows that in a year there were 16 million pregnancies to adolescent girls. In Indonesia, a survey conducted by the Indonesian Child Protection Committee (KPAI) and the Ministry of Health, (Ministry of Health) in October 2013 explained that around 62.7% of adolescents in Indonesia have had sex outside of marriage. In addition, 20% of 94,270