Primary school sex education in Malaysia

Primary inculcate wake commandment in Malaysia1.1 IntroductionPedophiles hale victims into end up activity acts, Lustful minors, these are the recent news titles published in newspapers in 2013 from New Straits Times. Sex fosterage has always been a sensitive issue, in a particular in a country like Malaysia and the issue has been brought into discussion since January 1991 until the latest on November 2008 (Sunday Times, 2010). There are emergent of cases of unwanted pregnancies, baby dumping and minors raping minors where in most of situations involved consensual switch onual practice. In worst situation, some of the minors do not understand what they are doing. This proved the occupy of provoke education in domesticates. Nevertheless, Malaysia still refused to implement a eff sex education in schools. piece of music recent reported cases revealed that sexual misconduct among children not however occurred among teenagers or secondary school, but also at young age invo lving indigenous school children thus painted a serious outlook for Malaysia. According to the Principal Assistant Director of the Sexual Crimes, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Investigations office of Royal Malaysian Police, a number of 22 cases of sexual misconduct involving children were reported from 2011 until September 2013this number involved children aged below 13 age old (source Royal Malaysian Police 2013). Interestingly, there were no cases on sexual misconduct of minors against minors reported before 2011 this may not mean that there was no cases of sexual misconduct among children in the country, perhaps, it exist, but not reported to the authority or the childrens parents or guardian pillow silent slightly the situation.Most of the serious reported cases were publicized in the local newspapers however, there still a number of unreported cases remain unknown. The human race race rights commissioner, James Nayagam believes that the schools have failed teaching the students to respect the human right of girls. He also claims that schools need to start implementing two important topics, which are on human rights and preventive sex education (The Star, 2010).Curiosity among children regarding sex is rising this is influenced by what they observed in the profits. In some situation, children are more expert than the grown in term of using advanced gadget to browse through the internet. These children are not always monitored by their parents or guardian. This is one of the negative consequences of internet to our young generation. Further, when the children dont have their own gadget to browse the internet, they also can go to cyber cafe nearest their house. They are not only playing computer games, but they are also browsing the internet, especially the popular YouTube websites. Computers in the cyber caf are usually not safe for the children, because sometimes the computers at the cafe are not restricted from certain bad websites, where il licit pictures of half-naked men and women can suddenly pop up from the computer screen.According to an obligate from the Canadian Council on Learning (January, 2008), most young people stumble upon pornography while searching for something else. Recent study conducted among British children ages from 9 to 19 proved that most whom encountered online pornography did not give further attention, some get disgust by it and small number of them expressed an interest in it. However, the small amount of them is the one that need to be controlled as this may trigger the kids to click on the pop ups which, later accepts them to the bad websites.While a few developed countries such as Australia, United Kingdom and others have implemented sex education Malaysia still in the early stage of implementing sex education in secondary school, yet it is still not completely implemented. Young children need to be educated about this matter. Without education, they might not be able to decide and defe nd for themselves especially the girls. Children who are in the process of growing up usually do not receive adequate information, intimacy and preparation for safe sexual life. The community often avoid from having an open conversation about sexual matters. At that particular age, these kids are crucially in need of conversation about sexual matters with the reliable person.Unfortunately, most parents think that it is not necessary to have sex activity education at school. Based on a report written by Lee Choon Fai, Womens Aid Organisation (WAO) executive director, Ivy Josiah, stated that open discussion about sex is often seen as an inappropriate in Malaysia, especially in the fusty communities (Selangor Times, 2012). They tend to think that sexuality education is one of the way or agentive role that could lead to companionable problem. For them, the children wouldnt know and wont involve in sex problem if the syllabus is not being teach at school. A primary teacher from Joho r claimed that parents think that sexuality education teaches students how to have sex and all (The Star Online, 2012). But what they do not know is that sexuality education actually helps provide their children with knowledge and information about the effect of the immoral act such as the diseases, unwanted pregnancies and other social problem. This shows the need to have sex education in Malaysian primary schools however, how ready of Malaysian parents to accept sex education for their children?1.2 Problem StatementThe issue of having/implementing sex education in Malaysian schools is not new. It arises as one of the solutions to deal with the rising number of baby dumping in Malaysia. Baby dumping issue, which powerfull related to other social problems in Malaysia such as illegal sex, teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, pregnant out of wedlock and others, pressure the government and applicable parties in Malaysia to propose for solutions.While a few solutions have been accept ed, though with some challenges, such as the execution of baby hatches (Gunaratnam and Agustin, 2010), school for pregnant teenagers (School of expect in Malacca) (Ram and Elis, 2010), encourage young couples to get married solution to have sex education among children is still partially implemented. Instead of agreeing to have a complete sex education in schools, Malaysian government argues that information about sex has been covered in several subjects in school such as in Biology and Social and Reproductive Health Studies.The reluctant to implement sex education among school children may come with the idea of not exposing and encourage teenagers to sex on the other hand, this may means that Malaysian society is still in denial in accepting sex is happening among our teenagers. Thus, sex education is important to teach our children about sex and its consequences. However, the issue of sexual misconduct is not only happened among teenagers, but also involving young children.Whil e the implementation of sex education in Malaysian secondary schools are not well accepted by many parties this study attempt to explore Malaysian parents readiness to accept sex education in primary schools due to the rising number of sexual misconduct among young children in the country. The introduction of sex education in primary school is not new. Developed countries such as Australia and United Kingdom have implemented sex education among primary school children and its proved to be effective in dealing with sexual misconduct among children in their countries.1.3 Research QuestionsThe questions that arise while the research is conducted are as followsWhat is the level of readiness and acceptance of having sex education as part of primary school syllabus?What are the relationship between conservative thinking, taboo subject, lack of expertise in schools and parents role, and the implementation of sex education among primary school children?What are the main factor that hinder t he implementation of sex education among primary school children?1.4 Research ObjectivesThe main objective of this study is to find out the readiness and acceptance of the parents on the issue of implementing sex education in schools, especially in primary schools. To achieve the objective, the process of planning and implementing the subject should be done thoroughly so that it can be fully accepted by the parents.The specific objectives of the study includeTo study the parents level of readiness and acceptance of having sex education as part of primary school syllabusTo explore the relationship between conservative thinking, taboo subject, lack of expertise in schools and parents role, and the implementation of sex education among primary school children.To turn out the parents perception on main factors that hinders the implementation of sex education among the primary school children in Klang Valley1.5 Scope of StudyLevelThis research give focus on parents readiness and accept ance on sex education among school children. The scope of this study is narrowed to parents because they play important role in their childrens life. Furthermore, in school, there is also an association that require parents involvement. For example, there is Parents and Teacher Association (PTA) where both parents and teachers leave behind sit together discussing about the victimization of children and all problems associated with the students. Thus, parents voice will be taken into account if they agree to have and feel the need of sex education to be taught in schools.1.6 importee of the StudyThe study is necessary to bring the awareness of the community towards the importance of having sex education as part of school syllabus and the benefits that it will bring to the country. The findings of this study are important to help the affected parties to realize what sex education is all about and related knowledge that comes with the implementation of the subject. The subject will mostly affect the teenagers which are the students of the secondary school and other involved parties include the parents, school counsellor, teachers, the community and the government.Sex education may help to scale social problems among teenagers such as teenage pregnancy, pre-marital sex and under age sex. With the right module, sex education also provide the students the right information about sex and its related issues and at the same time, correct any inaccurate and insufficient information about sex that they learnt from the Internet or mass media. apart from that, the introduction of the subject will help to educate teenagers about health issues related to sex namely ways to prevent pregnancies, unsafe abortions, abandoned babies, and sexually-transmitted diseases.1.7 exposition of Terms, Terminology and ConceptsSex EducationScience Daily described sex education as a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse and other aspects of human sexual behaviour.ChildrenWith reference to Child Act 2001, child is define as a person under the age of eighteen years.Primary SchoolMacmillan Dictionary defines primary school as a school for children between the ages of quaternion or five and eleven. In UK primary schools are sometimes divided into an infant school for the youngest children and a junior school. Same it goes to Malaysia, we have kindergarten for children age 5 and 6 and primary school with student age from 7 to 12.Social ProblemWe take definition on social problem from Maxwell School. It describes social problem as a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. young PregnancyAccording to UNICEF, teenage pregnancy is defined as teenage girl, usually within the ages of 13-19, becoming pregnant. The term that is being used in the workaday speech frequently refers to girls who have not yet reached legal adulthood, which varies across the world, become preg nant.