SEX INSTRUCTION.
TASK CANNOT BE SHIRKED. MORAL SAFETY OF YOUTH. A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 19. The National Birth-rate Commission, of which the president was the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. H. R. Wakefield, and the personnel' of which included leading doctors, presented its report to the Board of Education to-day. The report recommends sex instruction, and says that, however difficult and. delicate, the task; cannot be shirked with due regard to the moral safety and welfare of. youth. It is generally agreed that it is impossible to rigidly fix the age at which instruction should commence. One doctor urged that a boy of nine was perfectly able to understand the physiological facts of maternity. The commission did not give a definite rule whether parents or teachers should impart the knowledge, but recommended that teachers should be adequately trained for the purpose.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 9
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