Taiwan's high teenage pregnancy rate can be attributed to insufficient sex education as well as the conservative attitude of parents toward sex, an expert said yesterday.
Kao Sung-chin, secretary-general of the Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education, made the remarks during a seminar sponsored by the association.
Kao Sung-chin, secretary-general of the Taiwan Association for Sexuality Education, made the remarks during a seminar sponsored by the association.
Kao said that more open sex education, with teachers and parents more willing to discuss issues related to sex, would be most helpful to teenagers. He said that although Taiwan's birthrate has continued to slip, its birthrate among teenagers is the highest in Asia, or three times that of Asia, and five times that of South Korea. He noted that the birth rate among teenagers dropped to eight per 1,000 in 2005 from 14 per 1,000 in 2000, averaging 11.8 per 1,000 over the past five years. This compares with 4 per 1,000 in Japan and 2.8 per 1,000 in South Korea.
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