Posted on 03/21/2012 12:54:47 AM PDT by Morgana
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, March 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – As critics accuse Planned Parenthood of trying to facilitate the sex lives of minors, a featured speaker at one of the abortion provider’s local affiliates has suggested parents allow their teenage children to have sex in their home.
Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernadino Counties invited Amy T. Schalet, author of Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex, to keynote the organization’s “Consider This” luncheon last week.
Dr. Schalet, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said American parents should be more like their counterparts in the Netherlands, who allow teenagers to have sex openly under their roof.
Schalet told local media she finds it unfortunate that America, girls believe “in their parents’ eyes they would be a disappointment if they were to engage in sex.”
“In the Netherlands if a girl is in a relationship, she’s not a slut for wanting sex, for making decisions about sex,” she said. Most parents deem teen sexuality a “part of your life that you are allowed to own and make choices about.”
The sociologist, who spent part of her life in the Netherlands, said Dutch parents consider children ready for intercourse at age 16. “Teen pregnancy rates are about four times as high here. Birth rates about eight times as high.”
She added nearly 60 percent of Dutch teens are taking contraceptives by the time they begin having sex.
As she did in a New York Times op-ed, last year Schalet suggested parents who allowed open sexual activity in their homes exercised greater parental control over their children than those who preached abstinence. Schalet wrote that a Dutch teenager who told her parents about her sexual relationship with her boyfriend “enjoyed time and a new closeness with her family.”
“Obviously sleepovers aren’t a direct route to family happiness,” Schalet wrote. “But even the most traditional parents can appreciate the virtue of having their children be comfortable bringing a girlfriend or boyfriend home, rather than have them sneak around.” Unlike the American teenagers I interviewed, who said they felt they had to split their burgeoning sexual selves from their family roles, the Dutch teens had a chance to integrate different parts of themselves into their family life.”
Much of Schalet’s work is funded by the Ford Foundation.
In a CNN interview, she said if a child’s parents would not have a “wholistic” discussion of sex, which by definition includes methods of contraception, the young person should speak to “clinicians.”
The speech adds fuel to those who say Planned Parenthood is trying to get American children “hooked on sex.”
“American Life League has been spreading the word for decades that Planned Parenthood’s game plan is to sexualize children in order to build lifetime customers for its sex and abortion business,” Rita Diller, the national director of the American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood project, said in a statement e-mailed to LifeSiteNews.com. “Certainly, Planned Parenthood’s promotion of Amy Schalet’s ideal of a ‘sex playhouse’ for teens in the family home is one more manifestation of its tireless quest to promote sex among unmarried youth.”
“Planned Parenthood has long sought to duplicate the European model, which succeeded in gaining public approval of sex between unmarried young people,” she added.
She highlighed its 2002 publication We Can Do Better: Oregon Team Report on Western Europe’s Successful Approaches to Adolescent Sexuality which states: “It is the societal thinking—the norms—that make the Dutch, German and French successes possible. It is the openness and the acceptance that young people will have intimate sexual relationships without being married and that these relationships are natural and contribute to maturing into a sexually healthy adult.”
“Good parents and morality are stumbling blocks to Planned Parenthood,” Diller told LifeSiteNews. “This is one more example of the abortion giant’s never-ending attempt to create a society that will accept the unthinkable and embrace it as perfectly normal.”
Are you implying that there are ulterior motives involved, like maybe money? Planned Parenthood? I find that hard to believe {sarc}.
If the planned parenthood creeps don’t kill you through abortion, they want to get their claws on you when you are older to undermine any moral standards you may develop. Just why do they hate life and living a moral life? What moral degenerates.
PP must really despise human life at all stages. Their ideology and mission are social poison.
I feel sorry for those who fall for liberalism’s darkness and deploy it onto themselves and their children. This reminds me of the 60’s and 70’s. It is another wave of destruction. The ones who follow the social herd today are in for some serious sin and consequences. This is one time where normal people must not to go along to get along.
Good parents train up a child in the way he should go—and teach their children well that sex is for “marriage” and sex outside of “marriage “ is fornication,and adultery, prostitution , or sodomy-none of which glorify God.
The doctor is a seriously disturbed individual.
Does Amy need a pound of fried bacon on her chest to have someone make love to her???
Two sociologists were walking down a gravel road when they cam upon a man, beaten and bleeding, barely alive, slumped in a ditch.
“This is awful,” one sociologist said to the other.
“You’re right,” said the other. “We’ve got to find who did this and help him.”
Brings me back to the old story about: If your friend jumped off a bridge does that men you should jump off one too?
My answer to this is that I have a home , not a whorehouse.
If they are old enough to be having sex, they are old enough to get their own home.
Planned Infanticide is the nation’s leading provider of infanticide. $500 per dead baby.
This is just business.
That would be like the local fire department encouraging parents to have their children play with matches.
-—Massachusetts is a blight upon America.-—
I’m from MA and you are.... right.
It’s the cities and colleges.
In the Exurbs, we’re overwhelmingly conservative. My town of 7k is 2:1 Republican.
95% of colleges are harmful to our country.
“This is all a joke. Right?”
No deer, this is planned parenthood trying to sell you an abortion down the road. All off this leads to PP trying to sell you an abortion.
Having sex at home under the fondly approving aegis of their parents would deprive teenagers of one of the truly defining moments of becoming adults—the adrenalin rush of dangerous semi-public sex in the backseat of Daddy’s car.
Does this woman have children? Probably not. None of these f’ing idiots have kids but they sure do love to tell parents how to raise theirs.
My three daughters 15,13 and 8 know about sex age appropriate of course and know that its a GREAT THING to do in Marriage.
I guess I’m a bad parent ‘cause I won’t allow my 15 year old daughter to even single date until she is 17, and quite honestly she isn’t really interested in dating she finds education much more appealing right now... Whew...
You are correct, and I would add that the same applies to public schools.
Try again. The math is fairly simple.
“Teen pregnancy rates are about four times as high here. Birth rates about eight times as high.”
I had taken that as meaning Holland, as reference was made to her stay there in the preceding sentence.
Planned parenthood wants it out of the back seat and in the home courtesy ping.
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