'I acted to protect my child': Austrian mom fined for keeping son from explicit sex ed workshop - LifeSite
Thu Apr 23, 2026 - 7:08 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A mother in Austria has been fined for temporarily keeping her 10-year-old son out of school during a sexual education class.
Michaela Vamos-Karandish was fined 110 euros ($128) for keeping her young son out of school for four days in March 2025 after an external sex education workshop was to take place. The workshop’s content had not been disclosed to parents beforehand. In addition, numerous sex education books – the content of which some parents found questionable – were made available in the classroom for unsupervised use by students.
According to a report by ADF International, the materials included books such as Lina, the Explorer and My First Sex Education Book, which contain explicit depictions of sexual practices.
Some of the books also depicted modern views on gender and family, incompatible with nature and traditional …