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...Western diplomat: "Clearly a message was being sent." The general thrust: that government officials and ordinary Chinese citizens may finally get equal justice. Noted an elderly Communist intellectual: "At least our leaders seem to recognize that this problem exists. We cannot modernize unless everyone is more or less subject to the same legal system." SOUTH AFRICA Going on the Offensive...
...curriculum in public schools. According to a TIME poll taken by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., 78% of Americans respond yes to the question "Do you favor sex education in the schools, including information about birth control?" And yet, despite the majority opinion, the subject of sex education remains a divisive one. On one side are those like Wattleton of Planned Parenthood who argue that Americans should learn to accept adolescent sexuality and make guidance and birth control more easily available, as it is in parts of Europe. On the other side are those who contend that...
...also a complex problem, one that strikes many sensitive nerves. The subject of teenage pregnancy seems to raise almost every politically explosive social issue facing the American public: the battle over abortion rights; contraceptives and the ticklish question of whether adolescents should have easy access to them; the perennially touchy subject of sex education in public schools; controversies about welfare programs; and the precarious state of the black family in America. Indeed, even the basic issue of adolescent sexuality is a subject that makes many Americans squirm...
...Demographer Ellen Kisker of Princeton University found that teenage girls are awash in misinformation. Among the commonest myths: that they could not become pregnant the first time they had sex, if they had it only occasionally or if they had it standing up. Adolescents are especially foggy on the subject of contraception. A National Opinion Research Center survey of teenage mothers found that few were familiar with the IUD, and most, says Researcher Pat Mosena, "didn't even know what the diaphragm was." Mistaken notions about the health risks of the birth control pill are rampant. All this may help...
...National Board of Education has provided curriculum guidelines that ensure that, starting at age seven, every child in the country receives a thorough grounding in reproductive biology and by age ten or twelve has been introduced to the various types of contraceptives. "Teachers are expected to deal with the subject whenever it becomes relevant, irrespective of the subject they are teaching," says Annika Strandell, the board's specialist in sex education. "The idea is to dedramatize and demystify sex so that familiarity will make the child less likely to fall prey to unwanted pregnancy and venereal disease...