Follow-up: Antonia Tully - "Educația sexuală și sexualizarea copiilor. Situația în Marea Britanie" (Catedrala Sfantul Iosif, 2015.03.17) În data de 17 martie a avut loc conferința "Educația sexuală și sexualizarea copiilor. Situația în Marea Britanie", ținută de Antonia Tully, coordonatoarea programului „Safe at School” (În siguranță, la școală) al Societății pentru Protecția Copilului Nenăscut (SPUC), Londra. Este mamă a 6 copii. Prin campania „Safe at School”, Antonia Tully a sprijinit părinții din Marea Britanie în relația lor cu școala și autoritățile privind orele de educație sexuală. A vorbit la nenumărate adunări publice, prezentând situația reală din școlile britanice. Conferința a fost organizată de Asociația Provita Media și Asociația Medicilor Catolici București. La noi în țară, Strategia Națională de Sănătate pe perioada 2014-2020 prevede și programul de Educație pentru sănătate care cuprinde Educația sexuală conform programei OMS. Mai jos, fotografii + video + prezentarea de la eveniment. http://olivian.ro/antonia-tully-educatia-sexuala-marea-britanie/

1. Sex education:
The destruction of childhood
presented by:
Antonia Tully
SPUC Safe at School

2. What's happening
● Graphic materials used to
teach children about sex
● Parents excluded
● Children traumatised

3. “Living and Growing”
● Teaching programme for
children aged 5-11 years
old
● Makes young children
aware of their sexual
organs
● Introduces them to sexual
intercourse
● Normalises sex for
children

8. The impact on children
● How do you think this will
affect your child?
● A game?
● A worry?
● A joke?
● A fear?
● Once sexual images are
in a child's head, you can't
take them out
A violation of the child's
innocence
All the child's natural
reserve about sexual
matters is broken down
Contrary to normal child
development
The child feels trapped
between the school and
the family

9. How parents are treated
● Schools do not show all sex education materials to
parents
● Parents find themselves in conflict with the school
● Parents are ignored by policy makers
● Emphasis on “trained experts” talking about sex to
children in school
● Media perpetuates the myth that parents cannot or will not
talk to their children about sexual matters

10. Parent protest

11. Rationale for
school sex education
● Reduction of teenage pregnancies
● Keeping children safe from sexual abuse
● Tackling homophobic bullying

12. Teenage pregnancy
There is no evidence that
classroom sex education
for young children reduces
teenage pregnancies

13. Overall fall in teenage
pregnancies since 2008
● More widespread use of
long acting contraception
● Immigration
● Fewer pupils leaving
school with no
qualifications
● Parallel decline in binge
drinking and substance
abuse
● No evidence that sex
education is contributing
to this

14. Child sexual abuse
● There is no evidence that children who do not receive sex
education at school are more vulnerable to child sex
abuse
● Health professionals who give contraception to girls of 13
are overlooking abuse

15. Homophobic bullying
● No evidence that there is
widespread bullying due
to sexual orientation
● Homophobic bullying is a
smokescreen
● Homosexuality is being
promoted in primary
schools

18. A good approach
● Parents are the experts in
teaching their own young
children about sexual
matters
● School should support
and encourage parents in
this role
● There should be no
presentation of sexual
activity in the classroom

19. Opposing compulsory
sex education
● Whichever party/parties is in
government after May 2015 there will
be moves to introduce compulsory
sex education
● We are preparing for a major battle to
uphold parental rights and protect
children

20. European Convention on
Human Rights:
Protocol 1
Article 2: Right to education. “No person shall be denied the right to education.
...the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and
teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions”.

21. UN Convention on
the rights of the child
● Article 18
● “Governments must do all
they can to support both
parents in bringing up
children”.
● “Parents or guardians
have the top responsibility
for bring up children they
must always follow the
child's best interests”.

22. Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
● Article 26:
● “Parents have a prior right
to choose the kind of
educationt hat shall be
given to their children.”