MARRIAGE AND RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL'S SEX EDUCATION

EDM number 712 in 1996-97, proposed by Toby Jessel on 19/03/1997.

That this House takes note that the text of the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames Guidance Note for Schools, Sex Education Policy and Guidelines, January 1997, which is 27 pages long and contains well over 8,000 words, has relatively long descriptions of many other aspects of sex education but makes no mention whatever of marriage as an ideal or of the emotion of love within marriage, the only two references to marriage being marriage as 'a ritual' and that 'celibate' "technically means unmarried"; and regrets that any local education authority should make no attempt to imbue pupils in local schools with the ideal of marriage.

This motion has been signed by a total of 2 MPs.