UK Pupils Taught 13 Is 'Normal And Safe' Age For Sex

Should children be allowed to legally have sex at age thirteen?

Schools in the UK are teaching pupils that it is safe and normal to have sex once they attain the age of thirteen, the Family Education Trust has alleged.

Sarah Carter of the trust said the advice given to students in sex education classes contradicts Britain's legal age of consent, 16.

According to Metro, Carter said a 'traffic light tool' included in a recently published guidance stated "states that young people who are consensually sexually active from the age of 13, this is normal behaviour and development, whereas actually the law states that young person should wait until they are 16 at least, never mind if they are ready or not". "That’s awfully unlawful behaviour, and so quite often what’s taught isn’t always lawful."

But Chairman of the House of Commons Education Select Committee, Graham Stuart, seems to be okay with the guidance.

"There’s no one in our community who feels we should be trying to sexualise children, or any of those kinds of things," Metro quoted Stuart as saying.

"What we want is children to develop healthy and safe relationships and it’s really important that teachers are provided with the necessary training in order to do that."

According to a recent Daily Mail article, Britain still has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe.