England has recently unveiled a new sexual education program focused on beginning such programs early in a child's development. The curriculum would introduce topics pertaining to a sexual nature starting as early as five or six years of age and would continue through middle adolescence in an effort to curve Britain's high teen pregnancy rate, which is one of the highest in Europe.
[...] How young is too young? England has recently unveiled a new sexual education program focused on beginning such programs early in a child's development. The curriculum would introduce topics pertaining to a sexual nature starting as early as five or six years of age and would continue through middle adolescence in an effort to curve Britain's high teen pregnancy rate, which is one of the highest in Europe. Studies show that sexual education programs help shape youth's perceptions on sex and other topics related to sex, such as contraceptives and STDs, in a positive way. [...]
[...] Even though the programs are effective in increasing sexual awareness and decreasing early and teen pregnancies, many parents feel that a school- based program is starting kids off at too early of an age. Elizabeth Talbot, a mother from London, says, am not the parent who calls her son's penis a wee-wee. But I should decide if the word penis enters my child's vocabulary at 5 or (Zuckerbrod, 2008). Parents deserve more control over when sexual education should begin. For those parents who find it inappropriate for schools to begin teaching sexual education for their young children at young ages should begin teaching about sex and other topics pertaining to sex themselves. [...]
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