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If the Sex (or is it Sexuality) Education guidelines are unpopular, don’t fight it. Rethink. Education, generally, is not meant to go against the culture of a nation. It is meant to influence culture positively but not to fight it violently. On such matters the state ought to carry parents along. We need a national consensus on this. It is not for the UN to impose something on us merely because they are funding it. Do we desire it as a people?

At home, my wife and I answer questions about sex but so long as our children ask and we have taught them to feel free to ask (if not me then their mum!)

Currently, in the UK there is a controversy brewing. Children as young as six are being taught about touching or ‘stimulating’ their own genitals as part of classes that will become compulsory in hundreds of primary schools. Yes! This is how far the madness can go.

Some parents in Warwickshire County where it has been introduced, believe the lessons – part of a controversial new sex and relationships teaching programme called All About Me – are ‘sexualising’ their young children.