PSIKOEDUKASI TENTANG PENDIDIKAN SEKS UNTUK MENINGKATKAN SIKAP ORANGTUA DALAM PEMBERIAN PENDIDIKAN SEKS PADA ANAK USIA 8-10 TAHUN

Sex education is an effort to educate and direct sexual behavior properly in children. Along with the rampant cases of child sexual violence, sex education is important given as provision to understand theirself, the environment, and the people around them. The period of 8-10 years of age children are the end period of children that begin to think logically, critically, creatively, and scientific. Psychoeducation held to improve attitudes of parents in providing sex education on children. Subject of research are parents in grade III of SDN Madyopuro III with the population technique of sampling. This research is pre experiments research with one group pretest posttest design. The results showed an increase in parents attitudes before and after the granting of psychoeducation (t =-2,932; p = 0.009). Thus, it can be concluded that the psychoeducation can be used to improve the attitude of the parents in giving sex education on children