[nicmarlo]

A prominent mental health counselor says depression may be the new sexually transmitted disease. He points to a new study that finds sexual experimentation and drug use often precede adolescent depression.

I would add in with this abortions, about which the 9th Circus said parents have no right to know about...even though parents ARE REQUIRED to care for their children, otherwise they risk removal of said children by DSS for neglect/abuse, etc. But, how can parents know how to treat their children for unknown ailments when they are not allowed to be told by school and/or other authorities who have taken it upon themselves to give minor children, not their own, birth control pills, prescriptions for STD's, and/or whisk them off for abortions, etc.?

[sweetliberty]

This "don't tell the parents their children are murdering their grandchildren" travesty is reason enough, apart from a gazillion others, not to allow our children near a public school. If there is one thing that children will never find in public school, it is real answers to real problems. Trying to train and educate a child in public school is like trying to operate a complicated piece of machinery or electronic equipment with no prior knowledge of mechanics or electronics and not being allowed access to the instruction manual.