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Teen Sex: The Parent Factor
Heritage Foundation ^
| 10/7/08
| Christine Kim
Posted on 10/11/2008 1:13:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
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Social science research over the decades suggests that parents can play a protective role in delaying early teen sexual activity and reducing the risk of harmful consequences. And it is the PARENTS responsibility to do this because NOBODY else can be trusted to.
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:13:10 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:13:51 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Well Obama thinks sex ed starting in kindergarten is the cure.
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:14:23 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(No More Obama! - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
To: wagglebee
The public schools have failed miserably. First they thought it was good business to start shoving sex down the throats of children through mandatory sex ed. Once this practice encouraged more of the behavior, they decided “if they are going to engage in what we taught them, we better encourage proper contraceptive use and confidential abortion advice”. This led to an increase in teen pregnancies. The hand wringing liberals decided children should not be ostracized so now every high school has day care. This enabling practice encourages more sexual activity. I'm hearing stories of more pregnancies by girls who just want the attention.
These negative consequences are celebrated and enabled as the teachers are afraid to make anyone feel bad about the poor decisions they make.
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:22:21 PM PDT
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(95% of the Obama bumper stickers reside in public school parking lots....scary)
To: wagglebee
By crap like this for your little girl and you deserve to be a 35 year old grand parent.
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:24:24 PM PDT
by
DogBarkTree
(That sharp pain to the LibRat's groin is called the Palin Effect.)
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To: metmom
Another reason to homeschool.
If parental involvement is important then homeschooling is the best way to have that involvement.
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:31:45 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
To: DogBarkTree
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:33:26 PM PDT
by
CE2949BB
(McCain/Palin 08)
To: wagglebee
I was a GREAT officer on ‘the rez’, GREAT (Gang Resistance Education And Training, which is a program similar to DARE but continues throughout the summer and also has a family component). The two biggest things I would emphasize was
1. Do what is right in spite of what may seem popular. &
2. Parents need to be the parents and the children need to be the children, once the children grow up, move out and start their own families that's when parents can be the friend. Don't confuse being nice and friendly with being friends.
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posted on
10/11/2008 1:55:04 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Life
(Those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it)
To: wintertime
Public schools in this town have day care facilties...worse mistake known to mankind.
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posted on
10/11/2008 3:04:27 PM PDT
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(95% of the Obama bumper stickers reside in public school parking lots....scary)
To: wagglebee
Relax, it is just those other people’s kids having sex.
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posted on
10/11/2008 3:39:52 PM PDT
by
trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
To: wagglebee
A local urban school has multiple pregnancies, including a 13-year-old pregnant for the second time, and administrators perceive their greatest problem to be teen pregnancy (they've made progress against drugs and violence).
In these homes (mainly Hispanic), the teenager's moms welcome the additional babies. School administrators suspect an economic motive.
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posted on
10/11/2008 4:51:19 PM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Obama can act presidential. McCain should be President.)
To: wintertime
Yeah, call them names! Let’s keep saying that until all the teachers who aren’t super-liberal have quit! Then the children whose parents won’t take them out of public school will be taught by who’s left...wait...
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To: AZLiberty
In these homes (mainly Hispanic), the teenager's moms welcome the additional babies. School administrators suspect an economic motive. That's because welfare pays for these babies.
If they'd cut out the gravy train, there'd be no incentive to have more.
The welfare money doesn't make it to the kids anyway. The parents spend it on themselves.
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posted on
10/11/2008 6:19:17 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: DogBarkTree
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posted on
10/11/2008 6:32:32 PM PDT
by
Impy
(Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
To: wintertime
That’s great news for all the kids who are left!
To: ReagansShinyHair
That’s great news for all the kids who are left!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Actually it is horrible. They are being taught by Marxists, Useful Idiots, and enablers. The good teachers protested and were fired or pushed out or quit.
The only solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:07:21 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
To: wintertime
Oh, I thought you wanted anyone good to quit. That’s what it sounds like.
To: wintertime
I am NOT allowing you to hijack this thread. The primary topic is about parenting, not teachers.
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