Articles for Parents and Teachers<\/b><\/p>\n
Sexuality Education – Building an evidence- and rights-based approach to healthy decision-making<\/span><\/a>\u00b9 by Bridges and Hauser, 2014, and Why Sex Education Also Belongs in the Home<\/span><\/a>\u00b3 by Gordon, 2014, discuss the importance of sexual education in homes and classrooms and provide parents, teachers, and community members with resources to improve the health and lives of young people.<\/p>\n Comprehensive sexual health education is important.\u00a0 Only by giving youth the information and skills they need can we expect them to take responsibility for their sexual lives and health.\u00a0 The obvious reason sexual education is important is because it helps teens protect themselves against pregnancy and STIs.\u00b9\u00a0 Teens who receive sexual education are also more likely to postpone their sexual activity.\u00b3\u00a0 Comprehensive sexual education improves understanding of the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships and become comfortable communicating with parents, friends, and partners about sexual activity and health.\u00b9\u00a0 It teaches them to respect themselves and their body\u2019s, the choices and body\u2019s of others, and different gender and sexual orientation identities.\u00b9\u00a0 Finally, by improving sexual health of students, comprehensive sexual health education also improves their academic success.\u00b9<\/p>\n Parents can avoid talking about sexuality with their children but this often leads to children receiving incomplete and sometimes completely false information from their peers.\u00b3\u00a0 Alternatively, they can address the subject in a clear and straightforward manner.\u00a0 Sexual education from parents is best when parents are comfortable with their own sexuality, confident using language surrounding sex, and knowledgable about facts and resources related to adolescent sexual behavior.\u00b3\u00a0 Some teenagers will engage in sexual behavior despite encouragement not to, so it is important to also let them know how to do so safely.\u00b3<\/p>\n There are now National Sexuality Education Standards for education in schools.\u00a0 \u201cThe standards focus on seven topics as the minimum, essential content and skills for K\u201312 education: Anatomy and Physiology, Puberty and Adolescent Development, Identity, Pregnancy and Reproduction, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV, Healthy Relationships, and Personal Safety.\u201d\u00b9\u00a0 There are other movements, including the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act, that are also attempting to improve sexual education in schools.\u00a0 Parents, teachers, and community members can improve sexuality education by organizing, creating, and supporting movements they believe will make a difference in the lives of young people in their community and across the country.\u00b9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Articles for Parents and Teachers Sexuality Education – Building an evidence- and rights-based approach to healthy decision-making\u00b9 by Bridges and Hauser, 2014, and Why Sex Education Also Belongs in the Home\u00b3 by Gordon, 2014, discuss the importance of sexual education in homes and classrooms and provide parents, teachers, and community members with resources to improve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-swilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}