Should 'sex education' be taught in school or at home?

I learnt everything from my peers.
Then they taught it to us in school.
But I never got taught about it from my parents.

And lets face it, the stuff I got from school could hardly be classed as info.

 

it should be taught at home and parents should encourage their children to wait till their married before they do have sex..but still make sure they understand all of it..I would much rather them learn about it from me, that some boy just trying to get into their panties..

 

School b/c its awkward talking about sex with parentals when ur like 12 or 13 haha

 

i would say both places

but to make it not towards immature

i guess you whould have to look towards on how well childrens brains develop and what is there attention span towards a subject

 

its not encouraging irresponsible behavior in my opinion. its educating teens on how to be safe and making them aware of all the risks that can come into play. a lot of teens are gonna have sex...theres no avoiding that but sex education can teach them to be responsible.

 

i don't think you can teach teens sex ed.

If you really want to have an effect, regardless of whether it comes from home or school, then you should get 'em young. Three or four years old. after that ... at least for little boys, we've filled in the blanks on our own and sex ed brings absolutely nothing new.

 

I think it really should be taught at school. I can't see parents doing a good enough job on this to educate children very effectively. When it comes to parents approaching sex with their kids, they have a tendency to ignore that their child is even capable of having sex to begin with. It's just silly.

But realistically, I'm in favour of parents teaching children about sex at a very young age - well before puberty.

 

those are very dangerous words.

 

LOL. Your sister is capable of very crazy and wild sex, my friend.

 

Yeah it is an oldie. I have to confess I'm the one who dredged it up from the depths of the forum.

I was looking for old threads I could breathe some new life into last night and this is one of the ones I picked.

As to the issue, I don't think it really matters how you define sex ed, the question is really whether sexual topics should be approached within the family or taught by a total stranger in a government institution.

I say it should be family all the way. I don't go for this post-modern crap of the state raising the nation's children. Parenting is for parents not governments.

 

what are we defining as sexual topics?

are the bodies responses during a pregnancy a sexual topic?

 

I hope both of them are. My youngest is 21 and my oldest is 29, so i'd be worried if they weren't!!

the words are dangerous more because of what woodyboy said.

 

I guess it's a matter of personal opinion. To me that would be more medical than sexual. But therein lies the difference, people define sexual topics in a variety of ways so why don't we let the parents decide what is sexual, what is not, let them address those issues with their children, and take the state out of the equation altogether?

 

thats how problems happen. parents are stupid. thats why they should be left out of the decision making on topics such as this. keep it in the scientific realm of education and tell the parents to STFU

 

parenting MUST remain an amature sport.

 

Scientists and educators have political and social agendas and have a vested interest in the indoctrination of children. The parent's agenda is to raise the child in the best manner possible. So who would you rather go with?

 

not the parents

 

thus down the slope to aristartle's danger.

 

Both...

I think parents should have to approve their child being taught in school. But I think it should be both, no all parents are quit educated themselves.

 

Yeah government is better than anybody else at doing everything isn't it?
*gags in disgust*