Catholics Seek To Include Sex Education in School

The Catholic hierarchy is now seeking sex education to be included in the country’s school curriculum.

Paul Bongcaras, spokesperson on Philippine Catholic HIV/AIDS Network on Sunday expressed the importance of sex education to be inculcated at the early stage of students’ minds.

Bongcaras said that students are “the most important group of the population to know the value of keeping the incoming generations to live peacefully with lesser burden on population explosion and safe from the deadly effect of HIV-AIDS,”

“Our students today are the population, adults, parents, and mentors of tomorrow, so they must know how to take care of themselves before they become tomorrow’s generation,” Bongcaras said.

Bongcaras said he is now lobbying this idea to the Catholic officials in Cebu before asking the Department of Education (DepEd) to allow sex education to be included in their curriculum as one of the subject matters.

He said this is to develop students to become idealistic in handling family matters as well as knowledgeable in all aspects of caring themselves to maintain good health for tomorrow.

Sex education should have serve a dual purpose, first in planning a good family program and at the same time how to evade the dreaded effect of human immuno deficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) which increasing effect now is lurking in the Philippines.

Earlier, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) showed negativeness on the proposal to propagate sex education in school, saying that educating children about sex matters pose more family problems in the future.

“Maybe because it is already in their mindset that sex education is only to educate children how to make sex, a very unpopular thinking because if animals know how to make sex, human beings are more knowledgeable than animals,” Bongcaras said.

“This time that the country is suffering too much headache in terms of family explosion and the effect of non-curable HIV-AIDS, it is significant that our children must know these problems now while they are in their younger stage of life to serve as precautions before they become adult,” Bongcaras said.

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