Where should children learn about sex?; The Liberal Democrats want children as young as seven to have sex education in school but parents and experts are divided over whether ever more explicit lessons at increasingly younger ages are the answer -or even if the classroom is the place for them. Eileen Taylor reports.(Features) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: September 29, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Eileen Taylor

WHEN the children at a Merseyside primary school troop into their classroom for sex education lessons later this school year, two of their classmates will bemissing. Ten-year-old twins Catherine and James Fearon will be withdrawn from the classes,just as their elder siblings, twins Thomas and Siobhan,aged14,Julia,17,and Peter, 19, were withdrawn before them. The reason is simple. Their parents, Peter, who is a teacher, and Anne haveaheartfelt belief that home rather than school is the place for sex education, especially when it comes to children of ...

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