"Creating a strong family, increasing the birth rate." Sex education classes announced in Ryazan
“To preserve the health of expectant mothers and fathers, the governor [Pavel Malkov] has already tasked the Ministry of Education with developing a program for sex education for schoolchildren,” сsummarized Regional Minister of Health Alexander Pshennikov.
Experts explained to KP Ryazan journalists how to talk to schoolchildren about sex education today, the differences between "sex education" and "family studies," and the differences between "love" and "sexual pleasures."
For example, the head of the perinatal center department Tatyana Legostaeva believes that sex education for girls is most important:
"Even in kindergarten, a girl should be taught that she is a future mother. At school, she should be taught that love shouldn't devolve into sexual pleasures. When making rounds with teenagers at schools, obstetricians and gynecologists are horrified when they find sexually transmitted diseases in girls. And then, when they get married, they already have a host of infections. This is the contingent that will later have to undergo a cesarean section."
Legostaeva is known as a supporter of natural childbirth, although sometimes they lead к death of a child.
Head of the Center for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood "Right to Life", Archpriest Vitaly Rybakov He clarified that there is no need for "sex education" classes in schools—they are designed for those who "avoid having children or live by the principle of free relationships between the sexes."
"The only thing needed in the situation our country finds itself in, when working with children in schools, is motivation to create a strong family—one that will last a lifetime, with many children in it.", - he said.
The archpriest proposed introducing “family studies” lessons.
Earlier, there was talk of a new lesson being introduced. reported Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Protection of Family, Motherhood and Childhood Nina OstaninaAccording to her, this course is already taught in 40 regions as part of the Social Studies subject.