Sex education
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Related Terms
family planning, safe sex /sex abstinence
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Scope Note
instruction which increases the knowledge of the functional, structural, and behavioral aspects of human reproduction; for education programs which involve the promotion of safe sex and sex abstinence, post coordinate with SAFE SEX /SEX ABSTINENCE.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- What skills should sex education develop? If sex education is going to be effective it needs to include opportunities for young people to develop skills, as it can hard for them to act on the basis of only having information.
- Parents are generally content with whatever sex education is offered by their children's school (see Parents Approve sidebar), and public school principals, in a parallel NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School survey, report little serious conflict over sex education in their communities nowadays.
- In most European countries sex education is compulsory and comprehensive.
- An informal survey by IPS correspondents in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela shows that sex education is patchy or nonexistent in the region, with the exception of Cuba.
- gives young people access to information about all aspects of sex education and teenage life.
- com Home> Sex Education, Romance & Pregnancy > Sex Education, Romance & Pregnancy This matter is correct for educational purposes and addresses sexuality in a straight forward manner.
- Sex Education: Needs, Programs and Policies.
- ), a critic of the administration who has long argued for comprehensive sex education.
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