Big_Bird
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: Sex education 'should teach about infertility' |
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Children should be taught in school about infertility as well as about avoiding pregnancy, according to the new head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, who is concerned that few young people realise the difficulties they could face in trying for a family.
Lisa Jardine's concerns include the issues couples face over infertility brought on by factors such as obesity.
Jardine, professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary, London University, says infertility is too little discussed. "You've got to start it at school," she said. "If one in seven of us in the modern world is going to have problems with infertility then instead of all the teaching at school being about how to stop getting pregnant someone had better start teaching about how you do get pregnant, because there are going to be a lot of extremely disappointed people out there."
She warns of a growing problem. "I think male fertility is way down. There are probably all sorts of ecological and environmental reasons why we are less fertile." She said children at school would be told it is incredibly easy to get pregnant and that they had better be careful. "I think we could take that opportunity to talk about what happens if it isn't easy. In other words, that would make it less of a dreadful threat if you did not get pregnant," she said
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/28/health.sexeducation
I agree with this. So many people assume they can have a family, and then learn too late that that is not so. This can cause great heartbreak. Sometimes it is because of avoidable factors, such as untreated STDs. Young people ought to be aware of this potential problem. |
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