{"id":407,"date":"2011-07-25T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-07-25T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:12:22","slug":"finally-sex-education-gets-impetus-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/finally-sex-education-gets-impetus-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally! Sex Education Gets Impetus In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About time sex education took its rightful place in the school curriculum in India. NARI (national aids research institute) is <a href=\"\/\/www.mid-day.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/250711-NARI-sex-education-schools-HIV-AIDS-designs-model-UNICEF.htm\">pushing <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/books-pic.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-408\" title=\"books pic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/books-pic-150x150.png?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Picture of books and a apple\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/books-pic.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/books-pic.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>its demand for inclusion of sex education in Indian schools. They have tested a  module on sex education in different places in the country. This an  encouraging development and gives hope that this vital part of education  for our countries adolescents will get the chance to see the light of  day.<\/p>\n<p>But for it to become accepted as part of the mainstream  education agenda a lot of stupid prejudices and ignorance will have to  be countered. Not only do educators need to be informed why it is so  important for the health of our young adults but also parents and  politicians. The latter is a group that will need maximum work and need  to be educated as to why making sex education a political issue is  counter productive.<\/p>\n<p>They all need to understand that youngsters  are curious and experimental by nature and that it is far better that  they get the right information to help understand reproductive health  and sexuality in the class room, rather than browsing about on the  Internet, where they may get conflicting opinions and sometimes very bad  advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About time sex education took its rightful place in the school curriculum in India. NARI (national aids research institute) is pushing its demand for inclusion of sex education in Indian schools. They have tested a module on sex education in different places in the country. This an encouraging development and gives hope that this vital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13],"class_list":{"0":"post-407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-2","7":"tag-news","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}