subject: Importance Of Sex Education In Schools For Children And Girls [print this page] With the advancement of technologies, people have become very much busy and they have started following unhealthy habits. The daily lives of the people are getting affected and the number of disturbances in the society is also increasing. With time, incidents of sex-violence and sex-related crimes are increasing and most of the victims are innocent children specially the girls. Such incidents usually keep deep impact in the mind of the children and youths so it has become absolutely necessary to make them aware of these foreseen situations and that is one of the reasons why sex education in schools should be incorporated. Sex education for children should start very early and special care should be taken while imparting sex education for girls as they become the victim of such incidents and many of them spend their whole lives with those traumatic experiences.
Sex education in schools should be imparted by the professionals and it should also include the teachers and parents in some sessions. Though teachers and the parents remain close to the children but they are not always capable and feel free to give sex education for children. In our society even the adults need to be educated well on different aspects of sex. Sex education for girls will not only help in handling the following issues but it will help in decreasing the mortality rates of girl teenagers and spreading the idea of personal hygiene. Sex education for children helps in handling-
The reproductive organs
Taking care of reproductive organs
Sex education for girls is needed especially to make them aware of how to take care of their genital organs during periods to avoid various kinds of infections which might lead to some deadly diseases sometimes.
Process of birth
Birth control mechanisms
How to avoid unwanted sex before marriage and after marriage
How to avoid unwanted pregnancy before marriage and after marriage especially the teenage pregnancy
Abortion and the number of deaths of teenage girls during abortion
Malnourished child birth or premature child birth ; the reasons and prevention
Avoiding sexual abuse
Having safe sex and how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases
Sex education in schools can be done using banners, audio-visual aids, workshops, booklets etc. It is preferable that the language used is the regional language or most-used language in the region and sex education for girls will help in making a strong and healthy society.
