Should Teenage Girls be taught Fertility Awareness/NFP as part of sex education?

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YES! Regardless if they go to a private or public school; they will be subjected to endless harping on contraception. There is never any mention of NFP, in my “Catholic” school, the biology, psychology, health teacher never mentioned it until I asked, and then they said, “Oh, the rhythm method is not very reliable…” so I had to tell them about NFP (one of these teachers is an MD and she claimed she had never heard of any form of NFP 😦 ).

Besides; we are taught about breast self-exams and so on, and it’s my understanding that NFP/Fertility Awareness can help detect problems with the menstrual cycle and such. It actually is irresponsible for schools not to teach this, if you look at it that way.

I say, if they can learn about contraception and breast self-exams, why not NFP/Fertility awareness?
 
This is brass-tacks biology ain’t it?? A woman is reminded of life and death every 28 days, right?? Ought they (and their hormonal male classmates) understand the amazing power of a womans fertility, sans all the pharmacetical doping of contraception??
 
absolutely

The longer they do this, the more likely they will be to continue it, and the more confident they will be with their charts.

I brought this up a few weeks ago as I was looking for puberty aged information on this for my daughter as I was very interested in starting her out early too.

There were several people here who pointed me in the direction of my local Catholic hospital for classes and more infomration. That was very helpful and I suggest that for you as well if you are interested in providing this information to your daughter.

I actually am going to take classes with my daughter so we can learn the tracking together!
 
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What is everyone’s opinion on this?
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Hi netmil(name removed by moderator)!!!

Yes. I definitely think that teenaged girls should be taught fertility awareness/NFP. Currently, I opt out my 5th grader from reproductive health and teach her the “birds and the bees” Catholic style. When talking about why women have monthly cycles, it was very natural to begin discussions about fertility awareness. I think when she’s a tad bit older, I will begin sharing the Church’s teachings on contraception and NFP. I agree with a poster above that we should give our kids all the information that they need to combat the secular society’s view about contraception, abortion, and sex. In fact, all of my children understand exactly what abortion is and why it is so wrong (they’re 11, 9, and 5). So there’s my 2 cents!!!
 
There is a reason why we politely call those parts of our bodies “private”. I think information should be limited as to what school shoule teach in sexual education.

Definately teach them the Church reasoning and theology behind NFP and the Church teachings. (I remember it was a high school teacher in a Catholic school who planted the seeds of the Church teachings on marriage and sexuality that sprouted many years later.) But don’t go into so much detail that they end up thinking they know their own fertility charts at that particular moment.

I think detailed instruction about their own personal charting, crosses some of the personal intimacy barriers that shouldn’t be shared between teachers and students. And if you are asking if this should be taught in a public school, I fear for what they’d actually teach. I saw some sex education information from our public school district that included just plain wrong information about NFP and might have lead girls to believe they were not fertile at the very time they were fertile!
 
You bet. It would certainly be better than all that gushing over condoms they do now in those classes.
 
I went to Catholic HS. We were told about fertility and cycles. I already knew about it because MY MOM told me!
 
There shouldn’t be any sex education in school at all.
 
Sex education at home…my opinion.

And I think that it is very important to teach the fertility cycle to all of you children…boys, maybe when they are alot older.

I strongly believe if all women knew more about their fertility cycle instead of taking a pill everyday or relying on condoms, we would have less unwanted pregnancies…thus less abortions, etc.

Also, it’s very important to raise children to be anti-abortion…teach them and let them know what exactly abortion is…this is what I plan on doing because I have boys so far…God forbid that they were to get a young girl pregnant, she can easily kill my grandchild and they nor I would have absoultely nothing to say about it. If I raise my sons knowing what abortion is, what could happen having sex so young and outside of marriage…maybe they will not “try” until they are married.
 
All the sex education in the world doesn’t mean anything, unless we teach our children to respect their bodies.And this needs to start when they are young. Not when they come to you, because by then they are already thinking about it and that is why I see 12 and 13 y/o having babies.
As far as parents teaching, that is ok so long as THEY are comfortable with the finer points. Many are not.
~ Kathy ~
 
Chris Jacobsen:
There shouldn’t be any sex education in school at all.
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Why not? If it is orthodox and moral, than why not allow the children to hear it from the Catholic view so they can combat the world with truth rather than hear the corrupted side from somebody else and end up confused and misguided?
 
Plus, they are getting a thick dose of “sex education” via Biology class.

When the Catholic school teacher is explaining menses and pregnancy, this would be a great opportunity to integrate NFP for BOTH young men and young women.

I agree, provide the scientific side and the moral side- reinforcing what they are already learning from parents.

Certainly concerned parents can always opt out…
 
I think that health/biology classes should introduce it when discussing reproduction as it is a very important component of reproduction. That said, we homeschool–I don’t want the schools to teach my daughter anything about this topic.

I teach FertilityCare (Creighton NFP) and my daughter has been exposed to it for a long time. She attended my follow up sessions with me when she was 1. While I was going through the training, she obviously overheard me studying. One day, I put on one of her cassettes and she had taped over it with a made up story about baby stamps (she was 4)!

My daughter is now almost 7 and asks questions about why I fold my toilet paper and wipe before I go to the bathroom. So now she knows that that is something that married ladies do to take care of themselves. I figure that (even though we teach her at home) she will be bombarded with the idea that contraception is the thing to do. I want her to have a long memory of this before she is hit with those erroneous ideas.
 
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Fashina86:
Why not? If it is orthodox and moral, than why not allow the children to hear it from the Catholic view so they can combat the world with truth rather than hear the corrupted side from somebody else and end up confused and misguided?
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Unfortunately, that’s a big if. If you are talking about a truly Catholic HS and you are familiar with the teacher(s) teaching the subject, you may be safe. What is taught in public schools is value-less sex at best and depraved at worst.
 
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CatQuilt:
Unfortunately, that’s a big if. If you are talking about a truly Catholic HS and you are familiar with the teacher(s) teaching the subject, you may be safe. What is taught in public schools is value-less sex at best and depraved at worst.
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Well, if it was taught in public schools, people like Jason Evert or SL&C can come in and give a “seminar” during lunch or during an assembly. I know that this is a hard thing to teach anywhere becasue of thelack of truly Catholic thoughts on the matter.
 
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