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The Problem With Sex Ed — It’s Not Biology, It’s Sociology.
The way we teach our kids about sexuality determines how they will experience life. It’s time to question the lessons we are leaving them with.
The culture of childhood has changed. It is changing. When you, the average person, looks back a few years, a decade, just one year, you will inherently understand this fact without necessarily being able to name how it has changed.
Books have been written all about this great and multifaceted “how” that has fallen over our societies and nations. Reasons like the internet, globalization, the Information Age, the media, politics, 9/11, social media, crime, parents’ work schedules, and hundreds upon hundreds of others have been given, analyzed, and exhausted.
And it’s true, all of these things have played their role in the way children interact with and experience childhood. However, it is perhaps time we ask whether or not we’re focused on the wrong angle.
When it comes to our world’s youth, to our children’s lives, I would venture to say that most of us aren’t compelled by the large-scale, societal-level “reasons” for the problems they are facing. The questions we have — as parents, as aunts, as cousins, as teachers — are simple…
