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Sat 05 May 2010Shorter childhoods mean sex education at home is vital
Finding a consensus on sex is not easy, but it should be possible to link it to commitment, writes BREDA O'BRIEN
LET’S TALK about sex, baby, to quote those 1991 gurus, Salt’n’Pepa. To no one’s surprise, a recent Dáil na nÓg survey found most second-level schools are not talking much about sex to their senior cycle pupils at all. The numbers surveyed were extremely small, but let’s not quibble. In general, the findings ring true.
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