We should teach children about miscarriage during sex ed. Here’s why | Jessica Zucker

A reported one in four pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Yet miscarriage, like abortion, is not included in most curricula

Kelsey Christensen, 29, has been a health teacher at a public school in Maryland for three years. Part of her job is to teach sex education to her students, and she spends a good portion of her summer writing sex ed curricula. Yet, it never occurred to her to question why miscarriage and infant loss aren't included in sex education until she experienced a miscarriage at 10 weeks along in her pregnancy last summer.

It just wasn't on my radar to even bring up to my students and it hasn't been something that's been brought up at school to discuss," Christensen told me. But Christensen says her students will often ask her about miscarriage, usually after someone in their family experiences a pregnancy loss.