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Sex education to start in kindergarten for Chinese kids
July 19, 2004
Beijing - With an AIDS time-bomb ticking, at least one Chinese province has
decided that sex education needs to be taught from kindergarten onwards.
New courses about sex and health are to be offered in kindergartens, primary
and middle schools in southern Guangzhou, one of the biggest cities in China,
the China Daily reported.
"The number of students who have pre-marital sexual activities and school girls
who have induced abortion are increasing now," said Liao Chan, a deputy of the
city's People's Congress.
Liao, who is also a doctor, added that 15 percent of all abortions in the city
were performed on girls under 20.
"Sex and health education in students' early years is necessary since we even
found that a 13-year-old girl underwent an abortion in the past," said Liao,
adding that most youngsters learn about sex from "unhealthy sources" such as
pornographic websites.
China is still a conservative country where sex is not widely discussed, but an
explosion in AIDS cases linked to unprotected sex and the government's
acknowledgement of it is bringing the subject into the open.
The Guangzhou education bureau, together with the health department, has issued
a new textbook about sex and health which includes sensitive issues such as
masturbation, in contrast to previous books that only dealt with anatomy.
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