Movement demands consultation on compulsory sex ed for five-year-olds

[Dave Roberts]

The Fair Sex Movement is calling for a public consultation on the Government’s controversial proposals to make sex and relationship education a statutory requirement for children five years old and over in all England's schools. "People are too young to understand what the consequences are,” says 17-year-old Coronation Street actress Sacha Parkinson, who stars as a pregnant young teenager in the forthcoming film “A Boy Called Dad”.

"If people are just being taught about sex, then they'll think ‘that's something we should do’; if they're taught in a moral way, then it gives more respect to it,” comments the teenager, whose character in the long-running soap opera has pledged to abstain from sex before marriage. More than 2,600 people have already signed an online petition calling on the Prime Minister to “conduct a 12 week public consultation regarding whether or not to make sex and relationship education a statutory requirement for children five years old and over, expressing regret that this did not take place before the decision was announced by Jim Knight on October 23rd”.

The Jubilee Centre said parents were upset that they have been excluded from the Government’s decision to place sex and relationship education on the National Curriculum. They fear that the state’s intervention further undermines their input into their children’s education on these personal and sensitive areas, the social reform organisation said.

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[Janet Evans]

Ooooh. I wonder why the govt want to do this? Even relationship education, without the sex, is surely a surprising statutory requirement for KS 1. What is it that is motivating them to want to teach this to such small children? Who even thought about it in the first place? One has to wonder. I don't suppose it will be biblically based - anyone know exactly what is proposed to be taught?

[Peter Shields]

I strongly suspect that the government's favoured lobbyists - Stonewall - will be seeking (and duly granted) an influential role in determining the content of the curriculum. Expect to see more headlines like this ... though probably more from Muslim parents who seem to have a bit more conviction about these things.

[Graeme]

Too right, we'll as usual stand by and just let the vocal minority have their way, then once it's a fait a complait (sp) then we'll protest at how underhand the government it!

[Sarah Tun]

I am so glad to see others fighting this ridiculous and apauling 'agenda'. I believe the aspiration is to indoctrinate children to use contraceptives since it is expected they will engage in premarital teenage sex.
Children will rise to the level expectation... however low that expectation might be.
This destruction of childhood innocence is revolting and evil. How very very sad too.