Cooperation Between Parents and School on Sex Education to Prevent Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Case Study: Sex Education Implementation in Budi Mulia Dua Sedayu Kindergarten
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.019How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Sex education, sexual abuse, parents’ perspective, parents and school cooperation, implementation
- Abstract
The awareness of sex education in Indonesia is still low. This concern can be seen by the increase in sexual abuse cases that occurred in the last 3 years. 70 cases in 2017, 149 cases in 2018, and until July of 2019 there were 78 cases of sexual abuse in children. The causes were the lack of control from adults, and sex education is still considered a taboo subject. This paper would like to analyze parents’ perspectives about sex education and the school’s efforts to implement sex education in Budi Mulia Dua Sedayu Kindergarten. This research uses the qualitative approach with an in-depth interview in examining data with the parents and teachers, observation, also the literature review. The result of this study reveals the following: firstly, parents think that sex education is an important thing as a preventive action to sexual abuse. Secondly, the school has done the program with the explanation and active act in school. However, in reality, some problems occurred like toilets that is not divided by gender, and adult that changes the child’s clothes on the open space. The implication of this study is to bring school and parents to know and develop more about their awareness about sex education.
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- © 2020, 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Endah Windiastuti AU - Amir Syamsudin PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/10 TI - Cooperation Between Parents and School on Sex Education to Prevent Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Case Study: Sex Education Implementation in Budi Mulia Dua Sedayu Kindergarten BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 100 EP - 103 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.019 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.019 ID - Windiastuti2020 ER -