Overparenting Sexual Education: The Need for A Control Mechanism

Abstract

The article contributes to educational literature by proposing a model aimed at identifying in which specific occasions parental interference on children’s Sexual Education becomes overparenting. Comprised of four sections, the article first dissects the main duties of each stakeholder on the topic of child protection in the educational field. After demonstrating how international covenants are built upon open-ended language that does not address the clashes between parental powers and schoolchildren’s education, the article proceeds to argue that legal gaps found in the international sphere stimulate the pervasiveness of overparenting at the detriment of schoolchildren’s development. In the closing sections, after concluding in favour of protecting children’s sexual education from prohibitive hyper-parenting, the article proposes a mechanism aimed at identifying manifestations of overparenting on schoolchildren’s activities.