Parents have responsibility for sex education [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 25 February 2010
Sir, While I applaud Alice Thomson’s piece on the need for more sex education for our children (Opinion, Feb 24), it includes one telling phrase, where she writes that this education should come from “parents as well as teachers”.
Surely this is the wrong way round? Sex education should take place, first and foremost, at home, where children feel safe to discuss sex and ask questions. Children ask these questions at different stages of their lives; some as young as 5, others waiting longer. In my experience, with four children, the questions came in roughly the easiest and most logical order; “Where do babies come from?” invariably preceding the more awkward “How do they get there?”
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