Parents share their opinions on the plans to impose age limits for when children can be taught about sex education. Schools will be told not to teach children any form of sex education until year 5, when pupils are aged nine. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The teaching at the moment is all age appropriate and it's important concepts
00:04 and it's also important you look in the world around you, you see people of
00:08 different genders, you see different families, you need to understand how that
00:12 fits into society and it's a reality. It's a step backwards, it's nonsense.
00:17 I think it's a great shame because schools offer a safe place where they're able to
00:24 nurture inquiry in children so it makes more sense for them to get basic
00:30 information at school from someone they can trust in an environment they can
00:34 trust. I'd say rather at the end of primary, beginning of secondary school
00:39 will be the better time to tell them because at 13 years old you're into the
00:43 second, third year of secondary school so you've got access to too much
00:48 stuff at that age already so I'd say a bit earlier than that.