The failures of mandatory sex education and liberal bias in education were the themes of this year’s Family Education Trust conference in May.
Professor David Paton explored whether sex education mandates effectively reduce teenage pregnancies.
Citing a variety of studies, Professor Paton stated that educational interventions do not significantly delay the initiation of sexual intercourse; that educational programmes had no demonstrable effect on the prevalence of STIs; that sex education had minimal effect on reported behaviour, and no impact on conceptions or terminations by age 20.
