Schools must deliver good and realistic sex education to children
THE two teenage boys of a friend have had more than their homework to do in recent weeks. After school their mother made them sit down and read the daily coverage of the Belfast rape trial. Like everyone else she was appalled by what she has read, but felt that making her sons read all the detail was the best way she has of protecting them in their sexual interactions with girls, now and in the years to come.
As a mother of two girls I found my own thoughts these past weeks lay with the young woman, the manner in which she was questioned, the vulnerability of women to rape, and how to protect my daughters from such horrors in the future.
