UK: PARENTS’ FURY AT SEX LESSONS IN THE SCOUTS

Family campaigners called the new rules “completely inappropriate” for the Scouting movement
Tuesday April 5,2011
By Sarah O’Grady
Social Affairs Correspondent

SCOUTS in their mid-teens will be able to ask their leaders any questions they like about sex from today, but angry family experts last night attacked the new policy.

More than 35,000 boys and girls in the Explorer Scouts group, from 14 to 18, will also be given information about abortion, condoms and sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea.

However, family campaigners called the new rules “completely inappropriate” for the Scouting movement.

Patricia Morgan, writer and campaigner for parental rights, said: “Local Scout groups are not the right environment for even more sexualisation of our children. the rest