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Sex Education Syllabus To Be Revised by Ncert
Sex Education Syllabus To Be Revised by Ncert
NCERT
National Council for Educational Research and Training
(NCERT) has decided to make positive changes to the sex
education syllabus after the discovery of objectionable content
and graphics in the sex education text books.
Seven states in India had raised objections to the sex education syllabus;
the graphic and content was found to be inappropriate.
Let us try to analyze the reasons that point towards sex education for the
teens-
Adequate guidance would always help prevent teenage pregnancies.
Sex education would go a long way in helping to control AIDS and other
sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea, non-gonoccocal urethritis,
pelvic inflammatory disease and syphilis, to name a few.
Human anatomy
Safe sex
Sexual orientation
In the study conducted in nearly 700 high school students in central and
northern Kentucky, the team found that it was easier for the kids to talk
about personal stuff with someone they knew.
"The relationship between the teacher and the student, particularly during
adolescence, is very important. It was easier for the kids to talk about
personal stuff with someone they knew.
"It was easier for them to absorb the material and become more
interested in what they were talking about with their regular teacher in
the classroom," he added.
The report found STI and HIV rates were rising while demand for
abortions was also on the up.
It labeled the scale and nature of sexual ill health in England a "grave
concern" - and warned the government's long-term sexual health strategy
was in danger of failing.
The report said there had been "considerable action and funding ... to
improve services" after the National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV
was published in 2001.
But it called for more testing for HIV and other STIs and improved
access to abortions.
The report, by the Medical Foundation for Aids and Sexual Health and
the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health, also called for family
GPs to improve the sexual health care they give.
"We need GPs to be able to identify sexual health needs and be confident
talking about sex," The Sun quoted Co-author Ruth Lowbury, a top
sexual health expert, as saying.
"There are some ... who haven't really been interested in engaging with
sexual health.
Charities Want Sex Education for Kids
as Young as Four
Sexual health charities Brook and the Family Planning
Association are calling for sex education for kids as young as four
so as to reduce teen pregnancies.
The charities said children should be taught about sex so that they are
aware of things like abortions and sexually transmitted infections when
adolescents.
"This is not about teaching four-year-olds how to have sex ... it's like
maths - at primary school children learn the basics so that they can
understand more and more complex concepts at a later stage," said Julie
Bentley, the Family Planning Association chief executive.
Yesterday the Department for Children, Schools and Families issued new
draft guidance for schools. The Sex Education Forum has called for sex
education to be made mandatory in schools.
"It's only one year. And it might be, to use a very technical term, a blip in
the data," said Edward J. Sondik, PhD, director of the National Center
for Health Statistics. "We feel strongly that it bears watching."
The report also said the number of underweight babies in the US also
increased to 8.3% in 2006 from 8.2% in 2005. "This trend reflects an
increase in the number of infants born prematurely, the largest category of
low-birth-weight infants," said Duane Alexander, MD, head of the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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The seventeen schoolgirls are pregnant going into the summer holidays
at the 1,200-pupil Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, 30 miles
north of Boston.
"Nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to
making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together," Times
Online quoted Joseph Sullivan, the headmaster, as saying.
One of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man, and others are also in
their mid-20s.
All of the pregnant girls are under 17 and some are younger than 16, the
age of consent in Massachusetts, prompting the mayor to ask about
possible criminal charges for under-age sex.
"At the very least these men should be held responsible for financial
support, if not put in jail for statutory rape as the mayor has suggested,"
Greg Verga, the chairman of the Gloucester School Committee, said.
Some girls reacted with high-fives and started planning baby showers
when they learnt they were expecting.
After administering about 150 pregnancy tests, the medical director and
the nurse at the school clinic recommended prescribing contraceptives to
pupils regardless of parental consent. The idea went down badly with
families in the predominantly Roman Catholic town and the two clinic
staff resigned in protest on May 30.
Chidambaram Stresses the Need for Sex
Education to Combat HIV/AIDS
Chidambaram also said that the migratory labourers, lorry drivers and
above all sex workers are the most vulnerable sections of the society.
"It is spreading very rapidly among lorry drivers, migrant labourers, who
keep on traveling from one place to another. Moreover, the sex workers
who are carriers of this deadly disease," said Chidambaram.
Yet over 40 per cent of Indian women have not heard of AIDS, creating a
dangerous combination of lack of knowledge and greater sexual activity.
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There are some important preparations you can go through before you talk
with your child about sex but in the end, it’s going to take many
conversations and much stumbling for you to find your footing. Remember
that the most important thing is not to have all the answers and be ready for
every question. The most important thing is to listen to what your child is
asking and be open to helping find the answers that you don’t have while
letting them know that there is nothing wrong with asking questions about
sex.
That said, having some idea of what is coming around the corner can help
though. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers parents some general
guidelines about what kinds of questions to expect and what information
they consider it important for your child to have at different ages and stages.
Here is an overview of what they suggest:
Even from an early age your child will likely start exploring his or her body by
touching it. The fact is that genitals have nerve endings and touching them
feels good and is a way children soothe (and amuse) themselves. This isn’t
sexual in the same way we might think of teens or adults touching
themselves, and it’s certainly a healthy thing to do.
During these years it’s important to teach your children the proper names for
all their body parts, including their genitals. By making up names or ignoring
these body parts altogether you send the message that there is something
wrong with them and/or that they should be ignored. Sexual health is an
important part of overall health, and to keep our children healthy they need
to know about their whole bodies.
You can also begin to teach your children about the difference between
private and public. One way to do this is to teach them about the parts of
their body that are private and should only be touched by themselves (e.g.
parts covered by a bathing suit). By making this distinction you are letting
them know that there is nothing wrong with their bodies and that curiosity
about their own bodies is healthy. But you are also teaching them that there
is a time and place for exploration, and that they have the right to privacy
and to be free from unwanted sexual touching.
During these years your child may begin to show a more active interest in
sexuality, both in terms of how their body works, and how other children’s
bodies work. They may want to know why girls and boys bodies are different,
and they may not understand why they can’t touch other children wherever
and whenever they want to.
Your task at this age is to both continue offering accurate information (e.g.
about where babies come from, about the names not only for their own body
parts but the body parts they don’t have but are seeing on others) and to
help your children find and maintain limits or boundaries around exploration.
For example your family might be okay with walking around without clothes,
but your child needs to know taking off their clothes at daycare or at a
formal party isn’t okay. Another example is that its perfectly healthy for your
child to want to touch their own genitals, but they need to learn that doing it
in public isn’t okay. At a minimum the American Academy of Pediatrics
suggests that before reaching school age, your child should know: