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  • Title: A never-ending story: school family life / sex education in European countries.
    Author: Deven F.
    Journal: Plan Parent Eur; 1991 May; 20(1):2-3. PubMed ID: 12343173.
    Abstract:
    A comparative perspective in the early 1970's on family life and sex education (FL/SE) contributed by M. Kozakiewicz highlights IPPF Europe Region. In 1985, the Europe Regional Council explored the politics of FL/SE in European counties, Sex Education Group I Project, with the end result that moral as well as factual input was being introduced in school based sex education. Analysis of legal decisions, curricula, and research literature, which was conducted, evolved into documenting the process of the sex education provision along with the rationale behind sex education's non-existence in school curricula. Group 2 later involved 9 additional countries, but there were budget constraints. These later reports also took into account political-ideological change, and the effects of HIV/AIDs on encouraging sex education as health education. Notable reports include Cyprus' FPA's effective focus and relentless influence on the Minister of Education, and Portugal's FPA's similar success. France's MFPF human rights and feminist perspective is actively operating in the surveillance of new laws and regulations, but is unable to provide the means to sufficiently support sex education throughout the country. Czechoslovakia's political changes are still ongoing and Poland has been strongly influenced in its anti-abortion law in 1990 by the Roman Catholic Church. German unification mandates new laws of unknown fate. Luxembourg has expanded a limited medical and psychosexual counseling approach to include broader sex education activities. The IPPF successfully promoted awareness of FL/SE in schools, and FPAs have developed various strategies to influence top ministerial or administrative people. The never ending story is one of continued vigilance and adaptation to changing political dimensions.
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