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dc.contributor.authorGoldman, Juliette
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:23:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:23:51Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2009-11-03T05:22:14Z
dc.identifier.issn14681811
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14681810802433952
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/26364
dc.description.abstractSexuality education for school-aged young people is a crucial component of all quality education systems. It prepares young people for participation in society as responsible, mature and community-minded citizens. Most contemporary school education curricula generally aim to enhance young people's knowledge, skills and understandings of the world, and of their rights as human beings and citizens of nations. The current sexuality problems of many young people are the opposite of these; namely, ignorance, lack of skills, misunderstandings, and loss of rights, as well as unnecessary fear and shame about themselves and others. Many young people do not receive any sexuality education at all, and frequently parents have been found to be unsatisfactory providers of sexuality education for their offspring. Schools, then, become the logical place to provide this. Nowadays, the earlier maturing of girls and boys provides a further persuasive argument for quality sexuality education in all schools. The absence or erosion of school-based sexuality education through ignorance, fear or unreasoned response helps support ignorance about sexual behaviours, increased rates of unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and the cruel loss of life opportunities for young people. The present paper responds to 12 parental objections to school sexuality education, by providing research facts and evidence-based reasoned arguments to them.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713445425
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom415
dc.relation.ispartofpageto438
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSex Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume8
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGender, Sexuality and Education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic Health and Health Services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Studies in Human Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode130308
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1117
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1302
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1699
dc.titleResponding to parental objections to school sexuality education: a selection of 12 objections
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGoldman, Juliette


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