Question

the four difference between the population education and sex education

Answer 1

School systems in rural areas of developing countries need to develop ways to teach population education, and this area of education should be clearly separated from sex education, family life education, and contraception education. These latter 3 areas of concern need to be deliberately avoided by those working to promote population education. Population education is defined to mean those school related programs which teach 1)population dynamics and the dangers and problems that rapid rates of population growth cause; 2) the advantages to the individual, couple, and family of small families; 3) later marriage and childbearing; and 4) other closely related topics that exclude sex or contraception. Systematic school experiments should be conducted which compare programs of population education alone with population education combined with family life and sex education in order to support or disprove the assumption that population education taught apart from sex education is preferable. Until then, however, there are logical reasons for the promotion of a sexless population education program. It is easier to find or train a group of teachers able to emphasize population education than a group who can comfortably and effectively deal with sex and contraception. Opposition to sex and contraception education from parents or community, educational or government leaders may be such that the same people who would accept population education alone would block efforts to teach a combined program. Population crisis is a matter of u rgency, and, consequently, it demands priority over sex education. Existing sex education programs should be continued along with efforts to introduce creative and innovate sex education into urban and other schools where this is possible. Most important is the growing need for new programs of population education to be tested experimentally and then initiated on a massive scale in schools throughout India. It is believed that sex education should be excluded from this new, massive and primarily rural program, for it would destroy the possibility for the mass program as a whole.