[Sex education in the schools. Inquires among the cantons]

During the last ten years most cantonal educational departments in Switzerland have tackled the problem of sexual education. With the exception of the canton of Schaffhausen all the cantons have decided not to introduce compulsory sexual education. In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary. They usually have the right to have their children excused from sexual education. Theoretically speaking, sexual education is not confined to a certain age, but actually it is only given in the middle and upper classes. All the cantons accept that the parents should give their own children sexual education; school has only a complementary function. Usually the form master is responsible for sexual education. A close intercantonal cooperation is not the case, because sexual education is too much dependent on local conditions.