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http://www.news-medical.net/?id=33831
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Published: Wednesday, 2-Jan-2008
One of Britain's top medical experts says children as young as five should be given sex education lessons when they start school.
Dr. Charles Saunders of the British Medical Association (BMA) says if sex education is left until youngsters are 12 it is too late because some are already experimenting.
He also says secondary schools should hand out condoms and other forms of contraception to older children.
Dr. Saunders says the groundwork needs to be laid down early in order to help and empower them to make decisions and turn things down.
Dr. Saunders comments come amid fears that many teenagers are at risk because the safe sex message is being delivered too late.
Dr. Saunders is the chairman of the British Medical Association's consultants' committee in Scotland; Scotland's sexual health record is one of the poorest in the western world, with more than 9,000 teenage pregnancies recorded in 2005 and cases of sexually transmitted diseases rising by six per cent in April to June this year.
At present most children in schools in Britain do not receive sex education until they are aged 10 or 11 at the earliest.
While the Scottish Executive has said it is up to individual schools to decide when to begin sex education, the Catholic Church has described the proposal as "pointless" as sex education at five years old would be way over their heads and as pointless as giving them a talk on alcohol. |
As an innocent 5 yr old I was alarmed at discovering that my girl play friend from down the street didn't have a penis.
Should I have been prepared? Did I need to know at such an early age? Were my ultra conservative parents guilty of negligence in their failure to forewarn me of impending gruesome discoveries?
5 seems a little young imo, perhaps 7 or 8 would be more ideal? I'm not a parent, what do parents think?
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Proud Pies 
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as soon as my daughter was old enough to form a question in her mind, then i answered as honestly as i could. There wasn't an actual age, she learnt when she was ready to ask them.
The only problem i had was when she was 10, she asked how gay men had sex and then 12 months later, she asked how lesbians had sex.
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bwphantom 
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My experience is to answer them Accordingly to their age of understanding. Never speak falsehoods or satire a remark as kids do not get it.
Once again this should be a parent responsibility and not institutionalised instruction for children aged 5-9.
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Proud Pies
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| bwphantom wrote: | My experience is to answer them Accordingly to their age of understanding. Never speak falsehoods or satire a remark as kids do not get it.
Once again this should be a parent responsibility and not institutionalised instruction. |
totally agree. although even when i was at primary school a few years ago, they had a form of sex education, so it's been around a long time.
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stui magpie 
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Sex Education at age 5 is way too young. That's something that definitely should be left to Parents depending on the kids age, relative maturity and natural inquisitiveness.
The only thing I taught my kids at that age was that the genital area was personal and that if older people (including adults) ever tried to touch them there or asked them to touch the older person there, to refuse and tell me later. I had my reasons to be suspiscious about people I had no control over them being around.
I'm comfortable with really young kids being warned about "stranger danger" etc, but I reckon grade 5 at primary school is about when the first basics of sex ed should happen at school.
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Northern Pie
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I remember asking my dad what sex was when I was 11 and he sat me down and gave me the full deal about the birds and the bees etc...after he had finished i said, I don't have enough room to write that!!!, puzzled he looked at me and said "what do you mean enough room" to which I replied on this form for the next school excursion it asks, Name?, Address?, Phone Number? and there is a little box where is says Sex?.....
*boom tish*
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HAL
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| Northern Pie, I mean exactly what I said. |
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Piethagoras' Theorem
the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk
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hehe, nice one lol
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| Proud Pies wrote: | as soon as my daughter was old enough to form a question in her mind, then i answered as honestly as i could. There wasn't an actual age, she learnt when she was ready to ask them.
The only problem i had was when she was 10, she asked how gay men had sex and then 12 months later, she asked how lesbians had sex. |
Yes PP, a parents common sense approach will always win out.
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David 
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I had no sex education whatsoever and I turned out ok, I suppose...
I'll never forgive my parents for that... 
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Northern Pie
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I was exactly the same mate until my wife asked me if we wanted to have a baby....should have seen the look on her face when i ducked out to the shops and came back with a mens bike seat....lol 
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sherrife 
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As always, it's a matter of ignoring authoritarian tendencies to control information and instead just listening to the people affected by the decision.
There are any number of solutions to this problem, but all of them would require us to acknowledge that kids should be taught whenever they ask to be taught. Maybe the school counsellor could run special sessions with groups of individuals who begin to be curious, regardless of what year level they're at. Maybe each homeroom teacher should be empowered to judge when the kids are ready for the next step of their education, and then run a program in normal class time.
The crucial thing about both of these approaches is that they are consciously aiming to provide information whenever it is requested, not at making a one-size-fits-all policy. Everybody has the right to information, especially something as basic as sex education. We need to put kids' demands for this information ahead of any sort of moral system. (such as that of Dave's twisted parents)
(Obviously this sort of approach is underpinned by a moral system in itself, but you get my drift)
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David
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| sherrife wrote: | | such as that of Dave's twisted parents |
hey, they're not that bad... kind of weird, granted, but hey... I turned out alright... didn't I? ...Hello? 
But seriously, I found out most stuff on my own... eventually.
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stui magpie
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| David wrote: | I had no sex education whatsoever and I turned out ok, I suppose...
I'll never forgive my parents for that... |
Hopefully when "it" happens, you'll have figured out what goes where.
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Donny 
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| Frank Stone wrote: | | Yes PP, a parents common sense approach will always win out. |
Way off the mark, FS. Perhaps your remark was sarcastic.
If it wasn't, you seem to think all parents are capable of a consistent form of common sense.
Becoming a parent doesn't necessarily make one a 'good' parent.
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