Faced with the taking flight numbers in teenager pregnancies, the authorities have been during the mislaid as to how to understanding with this issue, resulting in the knee jerk reaction.
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The government's misled 'inhibition' upon the emanate of sex preparation has backfired, with teenage pregnancies in the republic intensifying. For over the decade, the Education as well as the Women, Family as well as Community Development Ministries kept boring their feet in implementing sex preparation in schools, citing the single as well many excuses.
In April 2010, deputy preparation minister Puad Zarkashi told Dewan Negara which sex preparation was unnecessary in Malaysian schools as well as would not be introduced as the specific subject.
"Social as well as reproductive illness studies is taught underneath illness preparation as well as encompasses curricula of the wide variety of subjects such as biology, science, additional science, dignified studies as well as religious education.
"As such, there is no need for the specific theme called sex education," Puad had justified.
That explains the never ending attempts to 'shield' students from the topic of sex education; non-governmental organisations similar to Malaysian Aids Council wanting to hold talks in schools were warned against talking about condoms or anything else which would awaken the students interest in sex.
So 'inhibited' is the supervision of the day which in Feb it around the Home Ministry imposed an indefinite ban upon the sale of the book "Where Did we Come From?", the classic children's book by Peter Mayle which talks about ! the fact s of life.
The book, initial published in 1984 tells of the man as well as woman who meet, fall in love, have sex as well as go upon to become happy parents.
Then, Home Ministry deputy secretary-general Abdul Rahim Mohd Radzi said the method was behaving underneath Section 7 (1) of the Printing Presses as well as Publications Act 1984, the fear being which the book's content could pose the risk to the community's "moral".
But as they say "one can run though cannot hide", 10 months after the Education Ministry is right away confronting the grave situation with teenager pregnancies in between girls next the age of sixteen escalating.
As always, instead of looking in to the base of the problem, the ministries concerned have motionless to "treat" the symptoms instead by deciding to deliver the commander programme to teach pupils elderly 12 as well as fifteen of the dangers of out-of-wedlock sex.
Inhibition or plain stubbornness
As distant as the Education as well as Women, Family as well as Community Development Ministries have been concerned, avoidance i.e. not deliberating this topic is the most appropriate way to 'protect' the young, the unsteadiness it has right away come to realise.
But now, faced with the taking flight numbers in teenager pregnancies in between girls next the age of 16, the authorities have been during the mislaid as to how to understanding with this issue, resulting in the knee jerk greeting by the Women, Family as well as Community Development Ministry.
Headed by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, the Women, Family as well as Community Development Ministry has concocted the programme to teach Year Six as well as Form Three pupils the risks as well as dangers of sex.
The commander programme which has been done partial of the school curriculum, intends to get the summary opposite by the Reproductive Health as well as Social programme. < div> The programme, based upon the Reproductive Health Adolescents module of the Federation of Reproductive Health Associations, bears the shortcoming of curbing teenager pregnancies as well as bieing born which stood during 6,000 involving girls underneath the age of sixteen since 2000.
"Based upon data of the National Registration Department, the total of 6,820 pregnancies as well as births involving girls next sixteen were recorded in between 2000 as well as October 9 2012," the method said in the created reply to Chong Eng (DAP-Bukit Mertajam) in Parliament.
Piecemeal attempt not helpful
This programme which kicked off last month in comparison schools national raises the horde of questions, ranging from the target age to the real objective.
Also, only how 'prepared' have been the 67 teachers who have been trained to teach the 1,360 students upon the hazards as well as risks of unmarried sex during the programme held in between Sept 8 as well as 10?
One of the reasons why sex preparation never took off in schools was attributed to the worry faced by the teachers in talking about the theme they felt shy about.
What 'miracle' have these ministries performed to turn our ever shy teachers in to bold educators who have been prepared to 'call the spade the spade'?
On the contrary, the worry is which such piecemeal attempt is not the answer or resolution to the social emanate which has right away become worry for the nation, in perspective of the many cases of baby dumping.
Did both ministries seek ideas from women's groups upon how most appropriate to tackle the complaint of teenage pregnancies?
Or have they for which make the difference complicated the unfolding in alternative countries as well as how the emanate of teenage pregnancies is dealt with?
How assured is the supervision which this programme will move down the numbers of teenage! pregnan cies involving girls next the age of 16?
And what done the relevant ministries sure which only pupils elderly 12 as well as fifteen would if ever, good from this programme?
The emanate concerned in the critical the single as well as the tryout distant from convincing; no wonder then children have been looking elsewhere for 'answers'.
Jeswan Kaur is the freelance writer as well as the FMT columnist.
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