We must protect our children’s innocence

THE EDITOR: It must be that there are many parents and teachers who are not aware of the issues or of the negative impact surrounding sex education in the classroom (including co-ed schools) or there would be a lot more caution on the side of the Ministry of Education and all stakeholders.

To begin with, it is agreed that children and teenagers need to be educated on this issue but the responsibility lies with parents in the sanctuary of their homes. Granted some children do not enjoy a home environment within which this can take place but this should not deter the fact that it is where it belongs. Let’s teach the care givers, let’s talk to the PTAs. Each of us is made up differently with different environmental influences on our lives and our lifestyles. Our sexuality is something very fragile within these varying frameworks and how we are guided in living it out can determine a great part of our future successes.

It is documented by psycho analysts that sex education cripples and stunts the natural development of the developing sexuality of children and teenagers. “In humans, unlike animals, when affectionate needs are not met and physical sex is all that remains, sex becomes meaningless and life becomes empty. This psychoanalytical maxim is readily apparent in the suicides of sexually educated, sexually active youths” — Dr Melvin Anchell, a fellow in American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. There is actually something called childhood innocence (putting it simply) that we as adults must protect and preserve in our children, in order to give them the opportunity to develop as well balanced adults. It is at this time of their sexual innocence that they should develop their self esteem, character, creativity, talents, spirituality, all that make up the foundation for a strong balanced adult.

I have been introduced to the programmes developed by Int’l Planned Parenthood Federation (sponsors of ASPIRE, the poor-choice group advocating to legalise abortion in our nation) and their sponsored programmes which begin in the kindergarten stage and are widely used in the USA and Europe. The content from the very early stages includes very explicit language and visuals of the most intimate acts and situations. The focus is to promote the pleasures derived, no discrimination against homosexual activity, and also not to be caught up in an unwanted pregnancy or a STD. Once it feels good do it. It’s your choice. I have also seen a book that has been drawn up locally for introduction into our primary schools in which the diagrams are little short of pornographic sketches.

In having the understanding of Planned Parenthood’s objective, it is with as much conviction to not having abortion legalised, that I have, in not having IPPF’s programmes or similar ones, in our schools. One conviction is protecting the unborn from a murderous death and the other, protecting our born children from a living death (meaningless life). Robbing our children of their sexual innocence is likened to the child abuser and incestuous relative for whom society has little tolerance.

JACQUELINE ALLAMANI
Petit Valley