Abstract: Objective：To explore the perception and attitudes of parents towards sexuality education (SE) for adolescents with disabilities. Methods：A total of 31 parents with the disabled children were in-depth interviewed in the urban area of Shanghai and Beijing, and the rural area of Shanxi province. Results：Urban parents had some concern about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) problems among disabled children. All of them supported SE for their disabled children, especially education about self-protection. However, they were more conservative in providing knowledge on reproduction and contraception, induced abortion and sexually transmitted diseases. Only about 1/3 (4/13) of urban parents had ever provided information about puberty development, health care and self-protection to their disabled children. Rural parents had less concern about their children′s SRH than urban parents. Although most rural parents (13/18) also supported SE for the disabled children, they didn′t know what should be provided. Therefore, few of them had practically given SE to their children. Almost all urban parents (12/13) and majority of rural parents (13/18) support school SE, and considered that school SE should be better than family-based education. However, they knew a little about the status of school SE, especially rural parents. Conclusions：Rural parents were more conservative in SE, less likely to provide sexual knowledge, for their disabled children. It is necessary to improve the understanding of SE, and the ability of family-based SE, for those parents with disabled children.

Key words: Disabled persons, Adolescent, Sex education, Parents