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School pupils aged 14 will have compulsory parenting lessons from 2011 under curriculum proposals from Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary.
Under the proposals, lessons in sex and relationships would begin at five, when children would label body parts and learn about simple changes to their bodies.
The classes would be part of the government’s new Personal Health and Social Education (PHSE) curriculum that includes teaching 14-year-olds about parenting, body image and ‘moral dilemmas’.
Children aged five to seven will learn about the “simple physical changes to their bodies since birth” and the differences between boys and girls. Between seven and nine, they will be taught about puberty and “how to form and maintain relationships”. In the final two years of primary school, pupils will learn about human reproduction.
The curriculum for 11 to 14 year-olds covers sexual orientation, contraception, pregnancy, HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases, homosexual relationships, civil ceremonies and the importance of marriage.
Mr Balls believes the classes will put pupils off having children until they are ready, although critics say there is a fine line between encouraging youngsters to delay parenthood and educating them for it… Continue Reading
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