Sex Education is a must

Sex Education is a must

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Ellyjah Mamuri started this petition to Schools and governments

 Problem
Sex education in PH schools still lacking
According to the latest report on the implementation of the RH law, the education department has not yet developed the minimum standards of comprehensive sexuality education that schools should comply with MANILA, Philippines Comprehensive sexual education (CSE), a "critical piece" of the reproductive health (RH) law, still "leaves something to be desired," according to the country representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to the Philippines. Also In the words of Stella Creasy MP, “When we live in a country where 750,000 children witness acts of domestic abuse a year and a third of girls in relationships aged 13-17 have experienced physical or sexual violence in relationships, when one in three women in our world will be beaten or raped in her lifetime, it’s time for all of us to stand up and say enough.”

Solution
We need to provide a far more reliable and helpful source for our children, when their key sources of information are currently porn, gossip magazines and other equally confused children.

If young people are not educated about the different sexualities/gender identities at school, and their parents are not aware (because they weren't taught at school), and the media does not portray them - positively or at all - how do they learn about these people and how to treat them? How will these people ever be treated with respect? How will young people who identify within these spectrums ever be able to be comfortable, stable and happy with themselves?

Making Sex and Relationship Education statutory and standardised is also a key and recurring recommendation from a recent Cross-Party Investigation into unwanted pregnancies.

Sex education helps people gain the information, skills and motivation to make healthy decisions about sex and sexuality. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest provider of sex education, reaching 1.5 million people a year.

"DepEd has already included CSE in its K to 12 curriculum although it has not yet adopted the CSE standards developed by a panel of experts in consultation with teachers, parents, RH providers, and the adolescents themselves. Teachers have yet to be trained on how best to deliver age-specific CSE within the K to 12 curriculum," the report read.

Personal story
I've encountered teenagers that got pregnant due to being uneducated about sex and got pregnant after and got dropped from school experienced bullying from judgemental teenager

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