Thursday 5 July 2012

Sex education sees boys separated from girls

Sex education sees boys separated from girls
 As part of bid to cut the number of pregnancies, teenage boys in the area's schools will be taught about sex apart from the girls to make both sides feel more "comfortable".

Knowsley in Merseyside has of the worst reputations in the country for the number of young single mothers & children born outside marriage.

A spokesman for Knowsley Council said: "These lessons are usually taught in mixed sex groups, but they are thinking about the recommendations of the Children & Families Scrutiny Committee, which suggested there may be benefits in delivering definite aspects of this subject in single sex groups."

A council working group said the move "could enable a focus on duties for young men" in the borough.However, some relatives organisations doubted the efficacy of the initiative.

 Norman Wells, director of the Relatives Schooling Trust, which researches the causes of relatives breakdown, said: "There is always a danger that discussing sexual issues in the classroom could break down the inhibitions of kids & young people & make them more vulnerable & this might be a specific risk within a mixed-sex group.

"However, whether it is delivered in a mixed-sex or single-sex group, Knowsley Council is regrettably mistaken if it imagines that more sex schooling, combined with more contraceptive schemes for schoolchildren, is going to reduce teenage pregnancy rates & high rates of sexually transmitted infections.

In the late 1990s, Knowsley became infamous for of the country's highest rates of teenage motherhood, at very 55 pregnancies per one,000 girls.

"The effect of the teenage pregnancy strategy on some teenagers has been to give them the green light to experiment sexually when they might not otherwise have done so."

A series of initiatives has cut that to 43.3 by 2008, compared to a national average of 40.4 - a reduction of over a fifth.But it continues to have Britain's highest proportion of kids born outside marriage at 68.5 per-cent.

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