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I can't recall the name of the book...but I think some sociologist/demographer
wrote a book (with facts/figures) that showed that if young Americans
1. didn't have children before marriage
2. didn't get married before age 21
and
3. at least graduated from high school
(or some similar set of priorities)...
then their odds of ending up in poverty were
VERY low.
Bet that book isn't required reading in public schools!
Obviously, neither has heard of DNA tests.
Why is this a problem the GOVERNMENT should be tackling? When did it become Government's responsibility to control the sexual habits of its citizens? I see that as more a moral issue than a legal or legislative one.
This is sad but it happens. There was a lot of emphasis on waiting but what concerned me the most was how twice abortion was casually mentioned without using the word. Kids used to be taught that when you make a baby you grow up and work and take care of the child. Now it's like they make mistakes that get "fixed" for them and continue in a child role.If kids want the rights of adulthood then parents should make sure live up to the responsibilities also IMO.
I think it would be better to be taught in the home. Why is it the schools responsibility?
"'A key problem is that there is no compulsory sex education in our schools.
'We need to give young women and men the tools to navigate their way through a highly sexually-charged society.'"
Yeah, this makes sense if you belong to the Church of the Multiple Orgasm. I teach high school students, and no offense to any of my students, but even with the best tools available most of my students wouldn't have the ability to make the right decisions needed for a sane, reasonable sex life. Teenagers don't have what it takes to make a rational risk analysis.
This article outlines in semipornographic detail the sex lives of junior high girls, complete with remorse, drinking, statuatory rape, and the chance for catching an STD - and the writer leads us to people who argue for "better tools" for young people.
If the "sex is OK" people are really in favor of what they say, why not give kids a motel room, a carafe of white wine, a hot tub, and a copy of the Kama Sutra (one with pictures, in case they haven't learned how to read)? How about bringing the boys to a prostitute?
If this article isn't an argument in favor of abstinance and monogamy, nothing is.
They are clearly not without information. It's a lack of education in morals, not sex, that's the problem.
Among all the categories the one missing is "lost virginity on marraige night". How sad.
Will leave it up to you whether you want to have the girls read this or not. Sometimes it helps if it comes from a source other than parents.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
The media are doing their best to help the young man make his case that "everyone is doing it."
Sometimes a person has to wonder just how liberals manage to feed themselves and tie their shoes.
This isn't a new problem, though it is a chronic one that ebbs and flows. One thing I noticed is conspicuously absent: how many of these girls are being raised in single-mom households -- in other words, without a dad living at home and thereby involved in her day-to-day life?
Among many culprits for promiscuity, can lack of dads be one? Without a dad around, a little girl is less likely to enjoy a comfortably affectionate relationship with him, the main man in her life. She gets older, has no experience, is already insecure with regard to male affection.
I'll bet that a pretty high percentage of these girls have pretty unstable daughter-father relationships.
The really sad part is that half the time or more, it isn't that dad dropped the family, it's that mom dropped the dad and is getting enough of a portion of his income to reduce him to poverty. He must work twice as hard to be a "good dad" if only because he has to do it by remote -- he's not a resident dad, most of the time by order of the resident mom. The truth is that women instigate the vast majority of divorces.
Yet in our society, dads get all the blame and single moms are saluted. Promiscuity, gangs, and teen suicides are some of the fruits of enabling a single-mom society. I know lots of people can't handle acknowleding it, but it's true nontheless.
I'm going to get flamed I know. Oh well.
There is a basic principal of sex that the young ones don't understand.
Sex is for making babies. conttraception fails.
Another principal...
The more sex you have with various partners, the more likely you will get sick.
They don't promote these principals in hip/hop/rap videos, and unfortunately it seems that is where many kids are getting their values from.
Not only is abstinence not taught in schools, the rate of illegitimate births in the US is up to 37%, so there may not be good examples at home. Add to that the cultural atmosphere of all sex, all the time and you're a weirdo if you're not fornicating.
I am not cheerful about this.
"tell they wanted me to have a termination..."
Translation - her parents wanted to kill their grandchild.