Early Childhood Sex Education in Coastal Areas

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210304.020How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Early Childhood, Sex Education, Coastal Areas

Abstract

Today, child sexual abuse was increasingly prevalent. In fact, these actions of sexual abuse are carried out by those closest people, including family. The most of people community considers that sexual education is a taboo thing to be taught to young children. The effect of the lack of public awareness about the importance of sexual education in early years can cause of sexual deviations behavior. This study aimed to determine the implementation of sex education in early childhood in coastal areas. The study uses qualitative research methods with a phenomenological approach. Research subjects are parents in coastal areas. The results showed that early childhood children in the coastal areas did not get sexual education in early years, parents considered that children were not yet time to be taught matters related to reproductive health, and the assumption believe that sex education would be taught by teachers in school.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Pahlita Ratri Ramadhani
AU  - Amir Syamsyudin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/08
TI  - Early Childhood Sex Education in Coastal Areas
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Paris Van Java International Seminar on Health, Economics, Social Science and Humanities (PVJ-ISHESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 90
EP  - 93
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210304.020
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210304.020
ID  - Ramadhani2021
ER  -