Families and Sexuality Education

Families and Sexuality Education. By. Ashley Pynas.

Intro: What is known about sexuality. Sexuality is about how you feel sexually about others Sexuality is first influenced at home. What one sees and overbears. Sexuality can be learned by how affection is expressed by the people around you Sexuality is everywhere at home, at school, in the neighborhood, on TV ,as well as the radio you can't escape it Sexuality isn't always easy to talk about but it’s a conversation that should be held. Most importantly, a conversation that starts at home with your family.

We are family. In common definition, family is known as a group consisting of two parents and A child. Everyone’s family can be different some consist of two moms, two dads or a mom and dad According to the reading (pg.2) “Children’s are not only born into families, but come into families through adoption, fostering, and various other kinship arrangements, such as grandparents or other relatives, taking over primary care.” Children can also be brought into same-sex families. The term parent doesn’t give a gender this is because in the text the term “parent is used to compass both the biological and non-biological adult, who are the primary caretakers. This does not necessarily need to be a man and a women.”.

Sexuality: A lifelong process. Sexuality is more than sex According to the reading (pg.2) “Sexuality is physical and social, a lifelong central aspect of being human.” The need for love, affection and intimacy makes us beings The way people attract others has to do with sexuality As a child, an important task is to learn to manage your sexuality at an age appropriate rate with the goal to be sexually healthy.

A lifelong process continued ….. Gender is important in sexuality as well Gender has to do with social expectations given to men and woman According to the reading (pg.3) “Gender role is a social construct that associates particular behavior as being appropriate for males described as masculine and other roles and behaviors for females, and described as feminine.” Sexuality starts at birth, one gains physical and emotions experiences as they grow..

Families Role. Parents are the first educators One of their goals should be to prepare their children to be sexually healthy at an early age, and as an adult Sexual education is both taught at home and in schools Learning about what sexual comfortability is important, being comfortable helps better understand high quality sexual education Everyone has different beliefs, values and attitudes toward sexuality Parents tend to want their children to follow their beliefs.

Sex ed @ home and beyond. Sexual education is more than just sex Sexual education begins as early as understanding you have parts, specifically private parts When understanding your body, you realize that it’s different from some others According the reading (pg.8) “There is general agreement among experts in child rearing that sexuality education should start early, be age-appropriate and dealt with in an open natural way.” Understanding and accepting sexuality in yourself, and or others is part of the process.

Challenges and benefits. The biggest challenge can be as simple as communicating about sex. This can be hard for some people. Parents can be concerned about how ready their child is to know about sex Having good sexual education parents are able to create an open atmosphere to talk about sexuality Being open about sex and relationships can delay a child interest in pursuing these things early The negative social impacts from society can make it difficult to communicate about sexuality According to the reading (pg.5) “Barriers to participation identified by parents were mostly practical, including lack of childcare and job responsibilities.”.

Supportive parents. There are programs to help parents achieve healthy sexual education at home US healthy teen program is a 8 week program that comes out to the worksites and work with parents Outside of the different programs offered, parents can use the web to do more research on their own particular child Parents deal with sexuality education different because all people are different.

Real-world Applications: The Wades. In 2020 the professional basketball player Dwayne Wade announced that he had a child in the LGBTQ community. While experiencing his child transition to becoming a trans woman Wade faces some bad backlash from society. Now in 2023 it is official as of February 24th a Los Angeles county judge signed off on the petition, legally his daughter is recognized as a female and has changed her name from Zion Wade to Zaya Wade This was only possible because her parents supported her from the beginning of her journey..

To concluded. Sexual education is first in counters at home Parents and others around you help influence your sexuality Families in sexuality education can differ due to the different family structures Sexuality has to do with gender and the social expectations given by society Family can make sexuality education easy or harder Communication is the best way to be comfortable with sexuality.

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