January 4, 2008

Sex education should start at five

Sex education for children aged five, is what Dr Charles Saunders who is Chairman of the British Medical Associations Scottish consultants committee been preaching. He believes that schools are leaving it too late for the some children and this has had a direct effect on the understanding of pregnancy and safe sex.

However there are some people who believe that teaching children about this sort stuff is the reason behind the UK having the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe. And you can see why people feel that as he as also suggested that children as young thirteen should be given condoms at school.

At the moment school children are taught about sex when they are around ten or eleven and the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases are only discussed when they are in secondary school.

Source [Scotsman]