Reproductive and Child Healthcare (RCH) programmes are currently in operation. One of the major tasks of these programmes is to create awareness amongst people about the wide range of reproduction related aspects. As this is important and essential for building a reproductively healthy society.

(a) 'Providing sex education in schools in one of the ways to meet this goal.' Give four points in support of your opinion regarding this statement.

(b) List any two 'indicators' that indicate a reproductively healthy society.

Solution

(a) Providing sex education is one of the best ways to create a reproductively healthy society. Sex education helps in achieving this goal by:
1. Providing proper knowledge to curious adolescents and preventing them from being misguided and preventing them from believing myths about sex-related aspects.
2. Creating awareness about sexually transmitted diseases and ways to prevent them.
3. Providing proper information about reproductive organs and various adolescents and related changes.
4. Proper information about safe and hygienic sexual practices.

(b) Two indicators of a reproductively healthy society are as follows:

1. In a reproductively healthy society, there is no emphasis on the selection of a particular sex. Hence, the ratio of male and female individuals is maintained.

2.The members of the society have physically andf functionally normal reproductive organs and normal emotional and behavioural interactions among them in all sex related aspects.

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