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Bangkok Post - September 18, 2005
At a seminar on sex education yesterday, Mrs Charuayporn said premature sex is associated with pornographic movies, obsession with brand name goods and other luxuries, a carefree attitude, uncaring families and several other social ills. She admitted past efforts to stop moral standards from declining had failed but said the Education Ministry alone could not be blamed.
The ministry had already done its best, she said. "But if a massage parlour is right across the street from a school, what can we do?"
She said the ministry would no longer deal with teen problems alone but would ask society, parents and teachers to get involved in efforts to modify teen behaviour and promote morality.
The ministry would spend the next three months telling people what they could do to get wayward youngsters back on the right path, Mrs Charuayporn said.
Parents and teachers at the seminar agreed teenagers liked to imitate the ways actors dressed and live their lives, and that promotion of condom use among teenagers was necessary.
They also called for HIV-infected children to study with other students and said it is teachers rather than parents who should be responsible for teaching sex education.
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