Teenage sexual activity in Zambia: the need for a sex education policy

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijayan K. Pillai ◽  
Donald L. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Sex Education Policy ◽  
Teenage Fertility ◽  
Family Planning Methods

SummaryData from a study of teenage sexual activity among secondary school girls show the need for a sex education policy as a first step in controlling teenage fertility in Zambia. A large proportion of teenage females enter into close relationships with males at young ages and a high proportion of young females have engaged in sexual intercourse. Most of these sexually active females do not use family planning methods even though a large proportion of them have heard of modern methods. The teenagers receive very little sex education from their parents and a modern institutional sex education programme is needed.

‘Private Things Affect Other People’: Grange Hill’s Critique of British Sex Education Policy in the Age of AIDS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah J Elizabeth
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
British Politics ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Aids Stigma ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Sex Education Policy ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract The article explores five key episodes of Grange Hill, which focused on HIV/AIDS and sex education in the context of the development of sex education policy under the Thatcher and Major governments and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) children’s television provision. This addresses the BBC’s and the government’s conceptualization of childhood and specifically its intentions for, and assumptions about, the audience who watched Grange Hill in 1995. Having placed these key episodes in context, the article then reveals the didactic intent behind them, outlining their effects through a close textual analysis focused on the representation of sex education and HIV/AIDS stigma. The multiple narrative techniques deployed by Grange Hill’s creators receives particular scrutiny, allowing the article to expose how this storyline represented a culmination, response, and an intervention into the British politics of children’s AIDS education that preceded and surrounded it.

scholarly journals ‘This Thorniest of Problems’: School Sex Education Policy in Scotland 1939–80

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Davidson ◽  
Gayle Davis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Post War ◽  
Sex Education Policy

In recent years, the history of sex education policy in twentieth-century Britain, and the sexual discourses it both reflects and reinforces, has attracted increasing attention from a range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Yet, research has primarily focused either on the early decades of the century or on the abrasive social politics of sex education since 1980. There is a dearth of material addressing the intervening years. Moreover, little research has been devoted to the Scottish experience, despite Scotland's distinctive traditions of education and law, as well as arguably a distinctive sexual culture. Drawing on a wide range of governmental archives, this article seeks to rectify these omissions by exploring the impulses and constraints that shaped Scottish school sex education policy in the period 1950-80. First, it examines the nature of the debate surrounding the issue prior to the Second World War. Secondly, it charts the reappraisal of policy in wartime and immediate post-war years in response to the perceived breakdown in moral and sexual standards among the young. Thereafter, the article examines the devolvement of responsibility for school sex education in the 1950s and 1960s to traditional purity and social hygiene organizations-the Alliance-Scottish Council and the Scottish Council for Health Education. The demise of such organizations, and the often conflicting and ineffectual efforts of the Scottish Education Department and Scottish Home and Health Department to address the sex educational needs of a more ‘permissive’ youth culture in the late 1960s and 1970s are then explored. Finally, the implications of the study for an understanding of the relationship of the State to sexual issues in later twentieth-century Scotland are reviewed.

scholarly journals Factors associated with fertility limiting intention and contraceptive use among currently married men in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bal Govind Chauhan ◽  
Ramu Rawat ◽  
Noli Nivedita Tirkey ◽  
Satish Kumar Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Family Planning Methods

Family planning methods are generally considered as women’s responsibility in India. The volumes of research done so far in the family planning methods and reproductive behaviors have kept women at the center of the matter. Consequently, the research on the men’s perspective on the same is generally being neglected. The present study intends to address intention of fertility stopping or fertility limiting and contraception behaviors and their associated factors among currently married men aged 20-49 years in India who had at least one living child. The fourth round of the National Family Health Survey in 2015-2016 was used to achieve the study objectives. Descriptive statistics and binary and multinomial logistic regression models were applied to more than 48,000 men who met the requirement. The findings of the analysis indicate that more than three-fourths currently married men did not want another child, and the fertility stopping intention significantly varies by demographics (i.e., men’s age, number of children, and sex composition of children), socio-economic characteristics, residence, geographic region, and religion of the respondents together with type of caste and social media exposure. The men’s fertility stopping intention was also linked with geographic region, types of religion and castes, and exposure of social media. Result further reveals that only <30% of men who did not want to have another child were using a contraceptive method at the time survey. Among users, female sterilization was the most popular method among married couples in India. Demographic factors, socio-economic characteristics, region and culture, and exposure of social media were all associated with use or not-using and use of a specific conceptive method. Overall, the findings suggest men’s fertility stopping intention and their use of contraception are complicated, and it needs to consider men as a target group in fertility regulation interventions. The reproductive health programs aiming to increase uptake of modern contraceptives by sexually active men in India should consider the importance of sex education and ensure access to mass media.

scholarly journals Knowledge and attitudes relating to condoms on the part of African High School children around Johannesburg

Curationis ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Frame ◽  
P. Ferrinho ◽  
C. Evian
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
School Children ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Poor Response ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Family Planning Methods

Senior high school children completed a self-administered questionnaire on sexual activity, knowledge of family planning methods, condoms and use of condoms. The study highlighted some useful and interesting information though its value is limited by a poor response rate.

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