CM bats for sex education to begin at home

Pinarayi’s FB post highlights perils of students imbibing half-baked info

Most parents dread imparting sex education to children; they’d rather leave it to the schoolteacher or the textbook. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, though, in a recent Facebook post, has stressed the need for the first lessons of sex education to begin at home. He has also shared an animation short film on sex education brought out by the Women and Child Development Department.

In the post, which has garnered some 10,000 likes and 2,300 shares, the Chief Minister writes about the pitfalls of half-baked, unscientific knowledge that students tend to glean from various sources. Unscientific notions about sexuality are a barrier, he says, to healthy man-woman relationship and building a society based on gender equality. Providing scientific sex education to the younger generation is imperative for the growth of a modern society.

Instead of evading children’s questions about sexuality, parents should provide them with correct information and clear their doubts. If not, children may turn to unscientific sources for answers, and imbibe wrong notions in the process.