Scotland: Sex lessons must start at age five
Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Anthony K. Valley
To fight the advancing rate of sexually transmitted disease and teenage pregnacy, Scotland’s most senior public health doctor proposes starting sex education with five year olds.
SEX education lessons should be given to schoolchildren as young as five as part of a bid to combat soaring levels of teenage pregnancy and sexual disease, Scotland’s most senior public health doctor said last night. Dr Charles Saunders, chairman of the British Medical Association’s Scottish consultants’ committee, warned that schools were leaving the safe-sex message so late that many teenagers were already exposing themselves to avoidable risk.
[ Full Story @ ScotlandOnSunday.Scotsman.com ]
Source: ScotlandOnSunday.Scotsman.com © 2008 Johnston Press Digital Publishing
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