Children in the Canadian Province of Ontario returned to school this week and a highly controversial sex education curriculum that brought parents out in a one-day protest across the province. They were objecting to their young children being taught in the classroom about same-sex relationships, consent, sexting, masturbation, gender expression and contraception.
Too much, too soon, in the opinion of many parents. Too much – ever -- for schools to take on themselves, according to some of them. It appears that parents can have their children exempted from classes about masturbation and contraception but not about homosexuality and gender identities.
Meanwhile, what’s completely missing in sex education for teenagers, says Peter Jon Mitchell of the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada in the following article, is any discussion of love and marriage. (more...)
No comments:
Post a Comment