by Laura Wiltshire

Students across the country are going to get improved relationship and sexuality education in a bid to promote inclusiveness and tackle issues such as bullying rates and increased access to online pornography.

The guidelines, announced by associate education minister Tracey Martin at Wellington’s Onslow College, aim to teach kids about healthy relationships, including diverse students.

“What the children are telling us is they want these conversations, they need these conversations, they are going to go out into the big bad world.”

“If we can get parents to be less fearful, or to understand more what the conversations are, we’re not teaching their children how to have sex, we are helping their children to understand themselves and their peers and actually what a healthy relationship looks like.” Read more via Stuff