Parents and adolescents in the intervention group reported not only more discussions than those in the control group but also a greater ability to talk about sexual matters and more openness discussing sex related topics with one another.
Equally, lack of openness to discuss views does not further the openness to others.
Unsurprisingly our informants tended to characterise groups responding to HIV as female spaces, where values of care dominated and an openness to discuss HIV prevailed, with caring and openness regarded as stereotypically female traits.
I applaud the openness in discussing this issue and urge that this open talk continue.
In late 2013, China was showing signs of greater openness in discussing what to do if North Korea collapsed.
"There's just more of a feeling of openness in discussing what you make," Ms. Green said.
His openness in discussing both what was known and unknown, and in releasing preliminary data as NASA received it, gained the agency praise.
But without America's openness in discussing and digesting its history, the future, when it does arrive, may indeed be the alien visitor the country's leaders fear.
While some analysts praised the company's openness in discussing its outlook, they were reluctant to predict that the worst was over.
There's nothing more attractive than confidence, and his openness in discussing sex and drug addiction not only suggests a man at one with himself but through his willingness to acknowledge his faults, a sense of humility.
