Sex Education
INTRODUCTION
Background
What is sex education? Is it needed to teach about relationship and sex to the children? Sex education may be taught informally, such as when someone receives information from a conversation with a parent, friend, religious leader, or through the media. It may also be delivered through sex self-help authors, magazine advice columnists, sex columnists, or through sex education web sites. Formal sex education occurs when schools or health care providers offer sex education.
How if the children asking about from where the babies came from. What is condom? Why people have AIDS? These questions are always been ask from the youth nowadays. Maybe it because of the era, which they can see or get the information about sex from the media.
Sometimes formal sex education is taught as a full course as part of the curriculum in junior high school or high school. Other times it is only one unit within a more broad biology class, health class, home economics class, or physical education class. Some schools offer no sex education, since it remains a controversial issue in several countries, particularly the United States (especially with regard to the age at which children should start receiving such education, the amount of detail that is revealed, and topics dealing with human sexual behavior, e.g. safe sex practices, masturbation, premarital sex, and sexual ethics).
Substantial evidence of the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education has recently emerged. Comprehensive sex education addresses both abstinence and age-appropriate, medically accurate information about contraception. Comprehensive sex education is also developmentally appropriate, introducing information on relationships, decision-making, assertiveness, and skill building to resist social/peer pressure, depending on grade-level.
As part of welfare reform, Congress passed legislation in 1996 allocating $50 million in federal funds for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs—which
Background
What is sex education? Is it needed to teach about relationship and sex to the children? Sex education may be taught informally, such as when someone receives information from a conversation with a parent, friend, religious leader, or through the media. It may also be delivered through sex self-help authors, magazine advice columnists, sex columnists, or through sex education web sites. Formal sex education occurs when schools or health care providers offer sex education.
How if the children asking about from where the babies came from. What is condom? Why people have AIDS? These questions are always been ask from the youth nowadays. Maybe it because of the era, which they can see or get the information about sex from the media.
Sometimes formal sex education is taught as a full course as part of the curriculum in junior high school or high school. Other times it is only one unit within a more broad biology class, health class, home economics class, or physical education class. Some schools offer no sex education, since it remains a controversial issue in several countries, particularly the United States (especially with regard to the age at which children should start receiving such education, the amount of detail that is revealed, and topics dealing with human sexual behavior, e.g. safe sex practices, masturbation, premarital sex, and sexual ethics).
Substantial evidence of the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education has recently emerged. Comprehensive sex education addresses both abstinence and age-appropriate, medically accurate information about contraception. Comprehensive sex education is also developmentally appropriate, introducing information on relationships, decision-making, assertiveness, and skill building to resist social/peer pressure, depending on grade-level.
As part of welfare reform, Congress passed legislation in 1996 allocating $50 million in federal funds for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs—which
References: 1. Aziz, N. ( 2011). Sex education is like teaching thieves how to steal. The insider. 2. Schaalma, H.P.,Abraham,C.,Gillmore,M.R.,and kok,G. (2004). “Sex education as Health Promotion: What Does it Take?” Sexual Behavior 33(3): 259-269 3. European Convection on the Exercise of Children’s Right. Retrieved April 2, 2011, from http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/160.htm. 4. Malaysian Medical Resources. (2005) Why we need Sex Education? . Retrieved Aril 2, 2011, from file:///H:/SEX%20EDUCATI/Why%20we%20need%20Sex%20Education.htm 5. International Planned Parenthood Foundation (2008), “Sexual Rights: APPF declaration. 6 7. United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ( 2001). Retrieved March 25,2011, from www.un.org/rights/HRToday 8 9. United Nations General Assembly (2001) August 2), “Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS” 10 By Melissa Chi November 16, 2010 Nik Aziz: Sex education is like teaching thieves how to steal July 02, 2010 However, to date there has been no decision on the matter. — Bernama Published: Tuesday March 2, 2010 MYT 3:26:00 PM Updated: Tuesday March 2, 2010 MYT 3:49:36 PM Malaysian teachers say ‘no’ to sex education (Updated)