Just a short addition to my call for sex education. An opinion piece in today’s The Age makes this claim.
“This approach (mandatory sex education), typified in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany gets the results – the lowest rate of teenage pregnancies, no significant changes in the age of first intercourse in 20 years, low rates of HIV and STI and a reduction in the number of teenage abortions.” Ron Moodie, chief executive of VicHealth
He goes on to say that there is no evidence to suggest that sex education encourages children to have sex, none, nada, zilch. It is an irrational fear perpetrated by sexual conservatives.