Everyone’s always harping on about needing comprehensive sex education, but have you ever looked at the stats of who has the most teen pregnancies and STIs? It’s shocking how un-helpful abstinence-only education really is.
Young people in England and Wales are patronized and poorly informed by sex education in schools. Negativity from adults toward teenage sex, along with a lack of basic knowledge about pregnancy and STIs, were flagged up by a recent study commissioned by sexual health and advice service Brook. Young people rely on friends for information, ...
Sex education has only very recently been added to Chinese schools. Increasing rates of abortion and pre-marital sex have led experts to agree that sex education for young people is necessary. But now a new elementary school books is creating outrage with its method of teaching sex ed to children. The Steps of Growth is ...
At Morning Quickie we believe that sex education is the best way to avoid any unwanted diseases or pregnancies. Australian high school teachers seem to agree. A study by La Trobe University’s Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society found that teachers at 300 schools around the country want sex ed to start as ...
There are many arguments for and against sex education being taught early and comprehensively. The opponents usually cite the fact that they don’t want their kids to have sex. Sex should be for adults in marriage (or at least long term committed relationships). Their kids would never do that, they raised them better. Kids need ...
The abortion rate was dropping in the USA, but then it stalled. Experts are saying this is because people just can’t afford more children so they opt to abort when in a better economy they might keep the child. The Guttmacher Institute released a report which showed that the rate of abortion in the USA was ...
Virginity pledges cannot be seen as lasting until marriage, but just until the person finds someone they are willing to “lose it” for. Take Selena Gomez, a Disney starlet, as an example. She’s had a virginity pledge ring since the age of 12 which she was given by her father and for which she vowed to not have ...
Most parents (90%) want their children to get sex education in schools, but most teachers (80%) are at a loss as to how to do it right. These results of a survey of teachers, parents, and govenors (by the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, National Association of Head Teachers, and National Governors Association in partnership with Durex ...
America is famous for its abstinence-only funding for sex education program. And sexual health experts are famous for their fight against these programs because, as we all know, these programs do not work. It looks like Obama has heard our cries because American schools are finally getting funding for comprehensive sex education. A five-year, $375 ...
The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in western Europe. While we can’t blame teachers for what goes on outside the classroom, anything they can do to improve these young people’s sexual knowledge would be helpful. So what can teachers and schools do to help? Have integrated, comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education starting from kindergarten ...
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