Home⇛International Social Science Review⇛vol. 10 no. 1 (2024)

Sexual Abuses of Young Children at Home and School: A Systematic Review of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Implementation and Challenges in the Philippines

Margarita V Jaminal

Discipline: Childhood and Youth Studies

 

Abstract:

Because Filipino youth and young children are vulnerable to various forms of sexual abuse, comprehensive sexual education (CSE), as mandated by the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Act of 2012, provides Filipino students with opportunities to be informed and empowered to make proactive decisions about their sexuality. The goal of this article is to highlight the challenges to the delivery of comprehensive sexuality education in Philippine schools. This article focused on the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education in the Philippines. To look at the administration of comprehensive sex education in Philippine schools to understand the implementation's challenges. It utilizes the available web articles to help understand the implementation challenges of comprehensive sexuality education in the Philippines. This proponent ensured that the articles were relevant to the purpose of the study and found that the implementation of understanding sex education had faced challenges that include a lack of professional competency training, mentoring, and knowledge in integrating sex education into daily teaching activities among teachers, which culminate seemingly into a failure, lack collaboration among stakeholders, NGOs, and local governments to secure community support for its implementation of comprehensive sexuality education was common, study discovered a lack of monitoring and assessment of comprehensive sexuality education in the educational system, and two studies found a lack of school advocacy to implement sex education. As a result, the data reported in this study is likely to be the best it will get soon. Due to contributing hindrances in school, community, and teacher competency, the Policy Guidelines on the Implementation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education were ineffective. The findings of this study will shed light on the problems and challenges of implementing comprehensive sex education in the Philippines from a national viewpoint down to the school level. Through this, it aids those in charge of making the necessary reforms of financing and resources, teachers' abilities and knowledge, promoting strong school advocacy, and community ties for the Philippine school system to integrate comprehensive sex education.



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