Nobody Controls my Right to Sex-Ed my Children

Nobody Controls my Right to Sex-Ed my Children

A sex-education channel is a must; one that is clear, honest, integral, and balanced. It should promote a comprehensive vision that is in accordance with the anthropological and fundamental principles of Nature and human dignity. The channel should aim to enrich human faculties, intelligence, and will power in order to be capacitated unto a personal development that is free, reasonable, integral, and, at the service of a healthy and responsable sex-life.

Parents should not renounce their rights and liberties that are garanteed by their respective national constitutions, as well as by the 1989 UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child. These are rights that lead to responsibility; a primordial, non-transferable, non-negotiable, non-delegable and irreplaceable responsibility. Therefore, the care-taking hands of parents, and not others, are those that have the power and right to initiate their children into sex-ed.

Parents who are moved by love, care, affection, and understanding for each one of their children are the main, irreplaceable, needed, and suitable protagonists to carry out an integral sex-education for them. The family is the most natural and adequate environment for personal development; it is the privileged space where questions about sex are posed and answered with love, trust, and honesty.

It is true that family is not the only powerful force that helps shape a child. Schools and friends are among others, within which a child lives and learns about human nature, not to mention through today’s mediation of the mass media, Internet, television, videos, movies, books, and magazines, that can influence a child’s behavior.

Mercedes Arzú de Wilson, founder and President of Family of the Americas Foundation, affirms that nothing is of higher impact in a child’s life than his or her family experience. That is where the principle of parents’ freedom to choose their child’s education in accordance with their own convictions, and moral, religious, philosophical, and pedagogical preferences derives from, as established in Article 14(3) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. (Translated by Gianna A. Sanchez Moretti).

Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer has led a distinguished career in Spain in the fields of publicity and press relations. He is currently President of the European Institute of Marketing.
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