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    Backlash over Sunak’s ‘irresponsible’ plans to ban sex education for children under 9
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    Backlash over Sunak’s ‘irresponsible’ plans to ban sex education for children under 9

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    1. Jammoth1993 on

      I’d say last year of primary school/first year of secondary school is the right time to teach kids about sex. Start with the science of reproduction then move on to contraception/safe sex and protocols for sexual abuse/assault. I think this might be a case of shooting the messenger, because it doesn’t seem that outrageous to me.

    2. Daft_Vaper on

      For under 12s I’d replace sex education with parental responsibility education. That’ll teach them what they need to avoid before they get in trouble doing it

    3. Grayson81 on

      The most important part of “sex education” for young children is making sure that children understand that they can say no to people who want to touch them without their consent.

      The people who would benefit the most from these proposals are paedophiles who want to make sure that their victims don’t have the words to tell anyone what they’ve been doing.

    4. worldengine123 on

      This is purely a desperate attempt by the Tories to try and win back some actual conservative voters.

    5. StupidMastiff on

      I think it’s important to teach kids under 9 some sex education. They need the information and language to understand abuse and tell someone.

    6. Aromatic_Mongoose316 on

      The entire debate stemming from a catastrophic failure in parenting in Britain in recent years, sad

    7. TraitorScorse on

      Proper sex education is the best tool you can equip your children with to prevent sexual abuse, it’s insane that people who ‘want to protect the kids’ will oppose this.

      Parents, as good willed as they try to be, are not always the best educators when it comes to such topics. It’s insane the amount of women I know who had their first period, before knowing what it is.

      What a disgusting policy for the Tories to tug on, just to stoke the culture war on their way out.

    9. screwballramble on

      Between this and the Cass report (with its looming threat of “reforms” for even *adult* transgender care), does anybody else feel like the Tories are out to destroy bodily autonomy in the UK from the ground up?

      This pearl clutching about children being taught the very basics of sex education is some radical US Christian-nut-job type bullshit. It’s scary enough on its own, but it also betrays a pattern of the Cons sliding further into line with US Republican opinions of how much vulnerable individuals get a say in what happens to their own body. I keep wondering when they’re going to start nibbling at the edges of women’s’ rights to abortions in the UK as well.