Parents and public are seriously concerned over an increase in the
number of sexual assaults on young defenceless girls, which has once again
raised a debate on better sex education in schools.
In the last three years, the
number of juvenile females being sexually assaulted or having early sexual
relations with boys or becoming pregnant while still in junior high school
seems to be on the rise.
This reflects a decline in the
moral standards of our society and has now sent alarm bells ringing for the
need for better sex education.
Young people do not have the
right knowledge on reproduction, birth control and hazards of sexually
transmitted diseases.
According to the latest survey by
a group of doctors at the Pharmacy University in Ho Chi Minh City, conducted in
three large public maternity hospitals of Hung Vuong, Tu Du and the
Reproductive Healthcare Center, out of 90,649 pregnant women, 1,477 minor girls
arrived at the hospital in labor.
In addition, abortion rates are
on the rise among teenage females of which 3,471 are juveniles from among
60,352 going for an abortion.
Hence, sexual awakening is a matter
of great urgency and necessary to integrate into the school curriculum. Nguyen
Hong Minh, headmistress of Thuan Kieu Junior High School said that in practice,
eighth graders are taught a little of the human anatomy and how a baby develops
in a mother’s womb.
Psychologist Tran Van Duong of
the psychological consulting center ATC said it is time for changes in sex
education as relationships between parents and children are so loose and
parents rarely teach sex education. Teenagers are easily influenced by bad guys
and what is on the internet, which results in abuse or assault by adults.
Dr. Nguyen Quoc Chinh of the
Reproductive Healthcare Center said only 36.8 percent of juvenile girls use
birth control in their first sexual intercourse while girls from 12-15 years of
age have no notion of birth control methods.
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