Sex talks ' a failure’
New Zealand is still considering introducing sex education into primary school* when — after eight years —
such a programme has failed to stop unwanted pregnancies in Britain, according to the Concerned Parents Association.
A statement by the association's chairman (Mr P. ( l»Iments) quotes remarks made by a British member of Parliament about a recent report which said that I per cent of girls aged 11 in Britain would he pregnant by the time they were 16. The member of Parliament, Dr Rhodes Boyson, said, according to Mr Clements: “We are today harvesting the fruits of the permissive society. The permissives always told us that by having sex education in schools, as welt as instruction about contraception, all these things would decrease. But I have said throughout that the reverse would be the case — and I am proved right by the Government report.”
; Dr Boyson said he asked the Secretary of Education to ban sex education in schools and to replace it by “instruction in morality, selfdisciplin*. and ths sanctity lof marriage.”
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