Joan Sauer’s research suggested that 70 per cent of both girls and boys want more sex education. They don’t want more information on the mechanics—they’re getting that in sex-ed class at school. No, apparently they’re wanting more information on the ‘emotional realities’ of sex. One boy respondent said, “I just wish they had told me how bad you feel after a one-night stand.”
Combine that with Sauer’s figures that only 7 per cent of girls and 5 per cent of boys were told that sex had anything to do with love (instead of just procreation), and that 97 per cent of girls and 100 per cent of boys have viewed pornography by the time they’re 15, and you get the picture that teenagers are getting a warped view of sexuality.
Some think children should be taught earlier. One girl respondent said she wasn’t taught about sex until year 10, when she had already had it.
But how young is too young? Could early exposure give children information they’re not ready for?
And how? Do you think sex education is to be done at school or in the home? Or both?
When should a child be taught about sex and how? I’d particularly like your thoughts on the issue of sex education.
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My wife and I have 12 children ranging in age from 18 months through to 29. We have 9 son's, 29, 26, 24, 23, 21, 18, 17, 10,4 and 3 girls aged 18/12, 6 and 15. The most important education is in the home particularly so with issues such as sex.
Sex was never a big deal in our house and neither was anything else in regards to behaviour and that. We taught our children about the reality of God in the nature of the Trinity, where 'love' and 'communication' have always occurred.
Here is the meaning of life itself all summed up in the always ness relationship between the members of the Trinity. We taught our kids this stuff from a very early age. They understand the first verse in our Bible is the most important because the rest of the Bible rests upon there being the Trinity. They understand that Christmas has lost its emphasis because for over two millenium we have celebrated one third of the Trinity when the Bible begins with, "In the beginning God (Elohim/plural) created." If we can explain to our kids that the most important questions concern who we are and why we are. If we can just get this part right, then they at least have a framework for understandinng what exists and why.
I guess it gives our kids intellectual integrity about who they are as Christian's and a knowledge of what confronts tham as Christian's from their non-Christian contemporaries. Education is tricky enough considering all the sciences are philosophical position before they are actual science disciplines. And these sciences claim to know, from where does man come from and why. However when you study these systems, eventually man disapears and something less arises.
Posted by Hona Wikeepa | May 27, 2007 10:02 PM
Posted on May 27, 2007 22:02