Abstract
Parents’ sufficient and correct sexual knowledge and positive attitude towards sex education are the prerequisites for carrying out family sex education. Through a questionnaire survey on the sexual knowledge and attitudes towards sex education of 1729 parents of children in senior classes (5 - 6 years old), the study found that parents’ sexual knowledge and sex education attitude were generally good, but the dimensions were uneven. Among them, the “children development” dimension of sex knowledge was the lowest, and the “obstacles of sex education” dimension was the lowest in the attitude of sex education; among the three background variables of parent’s gender, age and education background, the main effect of parent’s gender and education back- ground on sexual knowledge and attitude towards sex education were significant.
Highlights
Sex education is an education that uses scientific sexual knowledge, correct sexual attitude and appropriate teaching methods to cultivate children’s sound sexual attitude, promote children’s harmonious relationship between men and women, and guide children’s sound development at all levels of physiology, psychology and society (Chuang, 2009)
In order to carry out a horizontal comparison between different dimensions, the total scores of parental sexual knowledge and sex education attitude were divided into four levels: low, lower, middle, and high according to the quartile interval
The results indicated that the advantages of Parental Sexual Knowledge (PSK) were in the two dimensions of “health care” and “sexual harassment prevention”, but the disadvantage was the lack of attention to “children development”
Summary
Sex education is an education that uses scientific sexual knowledge, correct sexual attitude and appropriate teaching methods to cultivate children’s sound sexual attitude, promote children’s harmonious relationship between men and women, and guide children’s sound development at all levels of physiology, psychology and society (Chuang, 2009). Adolescent sex education is the focus of sex education, but the critical period of sex education should be before 5 years old (Chuang, 2009). At this stage, children are in the psychological development stage of “sexual organ stage” who can recognize the difference between men and women and will produce a lot of sexual curiosity behaviors. Children are in the psychological development stage of “sexual organ stage” who can recognize the difference between men and women and will produce a lot of sexual curiosity behaviors This is a good time to carry out sex education. Correct and scientific sex education for children during this period is very important to the child’s physical and psychological health (Qin & Li, 2017)
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