Formação de adultos e educação sexual primária

Eusébio, João José Martins

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Eusébio, João José Martins

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As an educator agent, the family has a background of extreme importance in the construction of a child’s identity, even when it comes to sexuality it is “the most precocious and prevalent source of influence in the development of the sexual being” (Vaz et al, 1996:18). The problem resides then in the quality of that influence. Being “bad” or “good”, this conveyed knowledge will certainly have a very high internalization rate. So, to delegate the sexual education of children and youths to families is to continue the situation of complete ignorance about the questions of sexuality and confine this right to more cultural and technically equipped families. So we are in presence of a paradox: if on one side the competencies conveyed by family/ parents have a very strong “anchor”, on the other side that conveyance is not “democratic”: the parents who have training on the topic will be a surplus value in case they wish that for their children; the others, the ones who don’t possess that, won’t. This study intends to aim at adults/ parents and try to understand if these ones are sensible to the sexual education question and if in some way, recognizing their boundaries, they would be available to receive training on the topic. Therefore, about 300 adults (parents of children from two State schools and from one private school) were questioned. The answers to the questions, in any of the three groups of adults questioned, confirm the importance given to the topic, ascribing to school, family and society in general, that responsibility. However, it is visible that although some parents are confident about their domain concerning the topic, they seem insecure about certain questions, refusing a model of training. Another curious data resides in the fact that people with a higher academic degree show more predisposition to training on sexual education.