When Sex Education Should Start?

Sex education that works starts early, before young people reach puberty and before they have developed established patterns behaviour.The specific age at which information is given depends on the physical, emotional and intellectual development of young people and their level of understanding. What is covered and also how, depends on who provides sex education when they deliver and in what context and what the individual young person wants to know.

"To provide basic information is the foundation of more complex knowledge is built over time."

It is important for sex education to begin at an early age and is also supported. Giving young people basic information at an early age is the basis on which to build more complex knowledge over time. For example, when very young children can be educated about how people grow and change over time and how babies become children and adults, and this is the basis on which includes more detailed information about puberty provided in the years pre-teens. They can when they are young, they provide information on viruses and microbes that attack the body. This provides the basis to talk to them later about infections that can be caught through sexual contact.