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Leah Jewett
- Feb 9, 2018
- 3 min
The importance of educating parents to educate their children
In today’s digital and highly sexualised world, there is a pressing need for relationships and sex education (RSE). Recent media coverage and increased public awareness around some of the topics it covers – such as consent, sexual harassment and the impact of porn – as well as the fact that it will be mandatory in secondary schools as of September 2019 mean that RSE is on the national radar. Discussion of sex and healthy relationships – whether it’s through the lens of safegu
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Leah Jewett
- Dec 19, 2017
- 4 min
Up against it: the urgency of confronting children’s exposure to pornography
Never having grown up with an endless supply of explicit sexual images at the touch of a mobile phone or on screens in their own homes, today’s adults can be in denial about the extent to which their digital-native children have to confront and negotiate their way around pornography. Unequipped to talk openly about it, many parents stay silent and teachers often feel too awkward to have honest conversations with students. Pornography underpins a multitude of interrelated conc
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