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Abstract – Pre-marriage free sex behavior of teenagers is all behavior driven by sexual desire, with the opposite sex, starting from the behavior of kissing, necking, petting, and intercourse carried out by teenagers before the marriage relationship. Parents have a role to help teenagers in increasing self-confidence and teach teenagers to make their own decisions that are not affected by their friends. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between parents- role and pre-marriage free sex behavior of the teenagers at SMK Kesehatan Bali Dewata Denpasar. This study employed analytical correlative study with cross-sectional approach. There were 187 respondents recruited as the sample of this study which were selected through probability sampling technique with stratified sampling and simple random sampling. The data were collected by using questionnaire and analyzed statistically by using Spearman Rho correlation. The result showed that 116 respondents (62.0%) were good category about parents- role and pre-marriage free sex behavior of the teenagers, and 141 respondents (75.4%) of pre-marriage free sex behavior were in good category. There was positive correlation between parents- role and pre-marriage free sex behavior (p = 0.001; r = 0.669). The better the parents- role the better pre-marriage free sex behavior of the teenagers. Parents are expected to give positive support to the teenagers, give information about sex correctly, because parents are important role in increasing the positive values to teenagers. The teenagers are expected to control behavior in order to avoid negative thing.