translated from Spanish: So compulsory sex education in Germany

in Germany, the responsibility to provide ed sex ucacion girls and boys is not an exclusive role of the family, but a duty of the State. From basic education, students begin to receive information about sex education.
By law, the 16 federal States of Germany are obliged to promote sex education in schools, in collaboration with institutions responsible for family matters. This is based on an existing educational catalogue at the national level. The Central Federal education on health (BZgA), created in 2003 in Germany as a specialized center of the World Health Organization, is primarily responsible for implementing those guidelines, which, in turn, are guided by the patterns for the Sex education in Europe (2010).
Parents are informed until they begin to teach issues related to sex education, but have no right to decide directly whether their sons or daughters should or not to attend such classes. A law sanctioning parents or mothers who allow or promote that their sons or daughters missed school.
In 2013, a father was jailed by banning one of her daughters receiving sex education at a school in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2017, the family, of Russian origin, decided to return to Siberia for not being in accordance with the German educational system.
In addition to teaching about contraception and biological aspects involved in sexuality, teachers and students also discussed issues such as gender equality, social values, and emotions related to sexuality and relationships. Sex education is approached from a holistic perspective, considering the various aspects of sexuality. For this reason, in most of the Länder, sex education is integrated into other subjects such as ethics, biology, religion and social sciences. In some German States, there are specific matters of sex education.
The rate of use of the contraceptive pill is high among the young German, as well as the use of condoms in men, which contributes to that there are relatively low levels of teenage pregnancy in the country. How much better is the education on the subject, less is the probability of contracting sexual diseases transmissible, or of causing an early pregnancy.
For the United Nations Organization for education, science and culture (Unesco), sex education is an urgent topic in schools, and in no way encourages risky sexual behavior. On the other hand, young future will have more responsibility over their sexual and reproductive health.
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