[wbill]

the role of parents

The author is seriously confused.

1) Parents are extremely influential on their children,

2) Their children are going to have sex regardless of what their parents think so the parents should just go along with it....

I propose option 'three'....use parental influence to help their kids make good safe decisions regarding sex, with abstinence always being the best one.

But that might result in the kids not thinking that I'm "So Cool", and they might not be my best friend anymore, troubling as that is to me. /s

[grania]

Even if this generation is lost, parents should speak for abstinance and morality. If a teenager errs, that message will be there as the ideal they should've met. Besides that, these teens can perhaps convey positive values to THEIR children, in the future, when people are perhaps looking for a return to a decent civilization with values. At least they'll know what the values should be.

Sex sleepovers are just wrong. The home should be somewhere where kids can still be kids. JMHO