PREVENTING sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among the young has been around for years as a topic, but young Singaporeans between the ages of 18 and 29 are still the least informe

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The Young Ones are well informed of STDs but choose to ignore it. The Young Ones are well informed. Let them have free sex. Why worry? These promiscuous couples couldn't careless no matter what happen to them.

"In many countries, teachers demonstrate the correct use of a condom, while male and female students are given condoms to learn in class how exactly to use it. "

So you suggest to let the student have practical in class??

To Silvia Cormont-Ku , your kind of thinking is the kind we don't need in Singapore. Sex Education in the USA has a woefully poor track-record in preventing teenage pregnancies and STIs. What makes you think it is going to work in Singapore?

The teaching of abstinence is the key to reducing STIs and unwanted teenage pregancies, not showing how to use condoms in class for goodness' sakes! How misguided can one get?

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They use bananas. It was either that or the cucumbers.

Please first ingrain the kids from age 6 with the GP and AP values.

For newcomers, as a starter to know what is GP, please google the 'glad game'.

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Oh it is? and here I thought that it would mean increase biz of abortion clinics or a smile to our PM face..;)

Its like, the dishing out of 'information' hardly enables these minors to make the 'right' choice. There is a disconnect in the thinking of these liberals who advocate younger and younger sex education.

Of course, we need to see that the 'right' choice in the eyes of these liberals is not the 'right' choice in the eyes of the conservatives. The 'right' choice for them is to have sex but free of its consequences or responsibilities!

However, they will never tell you this upfront! They will couch it in lies and half-truths.

The ability to make the right moral choice at that age (11-16) is sometimes beyond our children, that is why we must strive to protect them during these vulnerable years. To expose them to the proper use of condom usage is hardly helping them at all! It is like giving them a loaded gun and telling them not to use it!

So it is the liberals whose thinking that needs to be straightened out first. Having the 'right information' hardly qualifies teenagers to making right 'moral' choices. What the children need are guidance and direction, not a "free-for-all do-what-you-want but please take precautions" type of message that the letter writer is advocating.

Nurture the youths of tomorrow as brilliant youths, who are ingrained with GP and AP values.

This is our hope for the future. Brilliant youths have to be the future leaders of societies if not the mess in human lives continues endlessly.

How to bring up and nurture brilliant youths?

Ask MM.

MM should know the answers and he should leave this as his final legacy that is bigger than the man.

"With the mass media as accessible and informative as it is now, it is the parents' and teachers' jobs to reach out to the teenagers to provide sufficient information about sex."

Yes I agree. Provide the students with information like

1) The reality of sexual transmitten dieases. Show them the REAL THING instead of just talks or pictures.
2) Show a film on the abortion procedure.
3) Bring in a single young mother to share her experience.
4) Show the REAL statistics of people getting sexual disease and pregrant IN SPITE of the use of condoms.