Volume : 2, Issue : 2, February - 2013

A Study of Attitude Towards Family Planning and Sex Education in Relation to Gender Socio–Economic Status and Religion

Vibha A. Dave

Abstract :

In these days of increasing sex offence and sex abuse it has become imperative to impact sex education to students in a systematic, organized and lucid manner through formal system of education to enable them to transform their morbid sexual energy into different creative expressions. The educational planners, however, have begun to plead for its inclusion in the school curricula. In fact, the role of sex education in laying the foundation of a satisfying sexual relationship is undeniable. “Many Indian educationists do realize the importance of sex education too and argue that some sort of sex education without including instructions in the available practice of birth control may be useful. The aim of education is to increase knowledge and ways of knowing, to develop understanding and awareness, and hopefully, to help us to achieve wisdom in the conduct of our lives, both as individual and collectively. These aims are shared by the new field that has come to be called population education. Throughout the majority of history, women and couples had to count solely on prayer and luck for family planning. Some couples who desired children were not able to have them. Other couples have desired fewer children or pregnancies that were spaced farther apart, but had trouble accomplishing this goal. Until the 20th century, the only reliable way to prevent or space out pregnancies was abstinence. Fortunately, there are many more family planning options in modern times.