Current Sex Education fails to protect children – Parliamentarians warned.
by Chris Sugden, Church of England Newspaper:
Current teaching on Sex and Relationships mandated by law came under the spotlight at a meeting in the House of Lords on September 11. The Lords and Commons Child and Family Protection Group launched their 82 page report :”Relationships and Sex Education: The Way Forward”. This will be sent to all MPs on September 20 to inform the public consultation which closes on November 7th. Afterwards it will be available online on vfjuk.org.uk.
Welcoming the report, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP, the group’s chairman said that current SRE is not working for anyone while society is going in the wrong direction at a very high speed as the moral boundaries on which society thrives are being removed. He argues in his Introduction that current policies fail to protect children. Rev Lynda Rose argued that SRE causes the problems it seeks to stop by giving too much information at too young an age.
Evidence
Chapters in the report evidence epidemic levels of Sexually Transmitted Diseases among children and increasing rates of mental illness. These are consequences of increasing ideological pressure which destroys moral values and weakens the natural support and safety net of the family for children.
The Government promotion of gender choice among children as young as four fails to recognize normal child development and relies, like all totalitarian regimes, on distancing children from the influence of their families on the basis of ideology. “Let children be children”, and “Keep identity politics out of education” was a theme of the meeting.
Mandatory Health Warnings
If safeguarding is meant to reduce risk, the figures showing that despite decades of sex education abortions continue at a high level and bring mental problems, and other statistics of damage to health, mean that science is being ‘thrown under the bus’ as Dr Patricia Morgan put it. If people are warned of the health risks of smoking cigarettes, Robert Harris argued, Mandatory Health Warnings should be given about the proven health risks of multiple partners, under-age sexual intercourse, which is normalized by SRE, and the fact that contraceptives do not provide protection from STDs. Children will say in the future: ”You never warned us about the consequences of our actions.”
Children do need to know that human fertility means that they should have children in their twenties and early thirties. Many now delay a family so long that they have only one child which presages many more lonely people in future. They should also be taught the emotional and psychological bonding that intercourse produces. Breaking that bond, Louise Kirk argued, through multiple sex relationships meant that “the more sexual experience the better for choosing a lifelong partner” actually damages an individual’s capacity to form a stable and long-lasting union. “True relationships and sex education must look at the whole of children’s lives”, she said.
The report highlights that from September 2019 new legislation, introduced by Justine Greening, will overturn the rights of parents to teach children according to their own values and remove them from what they regard as inappropriate sex and relationships education. Head Teachers will be able to override such requests.
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