Friday, 20 April, 2012
Comparing sex ed between Switzerland and Holland
Campaigners in Switzerland have until October next year to obtain the requisite 100,000 signatures in order to have a public vote on an initiative to outlaw sex education before age nine. But one country where sexual education begins very early is in The Netherlands. WRS’s Dave Goodman spoke to Yuri Olrichs from Rutgers WPF—a research centre that produced the Dutch curriculum on the issue. He began by asking him what age children start learning about sex:
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