I ask, as my daughter who is a few years below the age of consent has been taught today how to put on a condom. Why would this knowledge be needed - as sex below 16 is illegal. Is this the state encouraging under-age sex?
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Are schools encouraging under-age sex? I ask, as my daughter who is a few years below the age of consent has been taught today how to put on a condom. Why would this knowledge be needed - as sex below 16 is illegal. Is this the state encouraging under-age sex?
I guess it's just early awareness, I was taught how to put on a condom when I was in year 8 (about 12 years old) I suppose it can't hurt to learn, but maybe the education program are trying to say that it's better to be safe than sorry.
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No, it most definitely is not! All schools should be doing this and I bitterly regret not having the chance to learn these things at school myself - everything I know about it I've had to learn off my own back through the Internet and family, which no under-16 in Britain should have to do.Originally Posted by gimlet
The only sex education classes I had lasted about a fortnight in year 9 (aged 13/14), and it simply isn't adequate. I remember in primary school the girls in our class had an introduction to sex education but the teacher decided that the boys were "too immature", so the girls used to go out of class with the year above ours and it didn't take long for us to guess why.
I can count about ten teenage pregnancies from my school - and those are just the ones I know of (friends, friends of friends etc.). One girl I know was allegedly using the Pill after intercourse, thinking it would function like the morning-after Pill. It's OK to mock her, but this is indicative of the failings of the education system. Sex education needs to be in depth and re-taught frequently, let's say every year from year 9.
By not teaching young people, we are merely breeding ignorance and disastrous consequences. We have the highest teenage abortion rate in Europe (no surprise to me from personal experience) and it simply is not on. We cannot risk meddling with young lives with a reticent education system and the out-of-touch assumption of abstinence.
The girls I knew who got pregnant under age knew full well what they were doing, the idea that they were dizzy, niave and innocent is such bolloc*s. They were generally from 'rough' backgrounds, cocky and sassy. Funnily enough they were always the ones saying we needed more sex education at school but were not so enthusiastic about other subjects funnily enough.
Sophistication? Sophistication? Don't talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds!
Shouldn't it be the responsibility of parents to decide when and to inform their child of these things?why has parental responsibility not been encouraged?
I quite agree with what you say completely.The girls I knew who got pregnant under age knew full well what they were doing, the idea that they were dizzy, niave and innocent is such bolloc*s. They were generally from 'rough' backgrounds, cocky and sassy. Funnily enough they were always the ones saying we needed more sex education at school but were not so enthusiastic about other subjects funnily enough.
The only type of sex education I had at school was when we were shown a film of a birth, we were shown that when we were about 12, I was brought up to believe that sex before 16 was illegal and that you could be prosecuted, nowadays parents don't teach their children morals, what's right and wrong, all parent's say when their children have sex is that you cannot stop them, while that may be true you can instill in your children morals and decency which in todays society is lacking.
When we have politicians like "Harriet Harman" dismissing traditional families and that the role of fathers is unimportant in the upbringing of children then we are lost as a nation, politicians tell us that all types of family are OK, two fathers, two mothers, two transexuals bringing up children is all OK, sorry but it is not, we have gone down a road since the sixties where family values have been thrown out the window, anything goes nowadays, there is no shame, when I was a child it was shameful to give birth out of wedlock, now we have 12 year olds giving birth, we are on a slippery slope, people like "Peter Tatchell" think the age of consent should be even lower than it is, you know where that will lead???????
I quite agree
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Everyone knows that most of the under aged sex that goes on now is because of asian grooming. We need a party that understands this and has the guts to address it.
Are you quite mad?
Open your eyes. Use google and you will find out I am right.
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