I don’t watch much TV either, actually I don’t have one. So I only see what’s going on if I happen to be at a friend’s. I’ve been shocked just by the commercials for Viagra-type products, extremely explicit language and on early in the evening. It’s easy to imagine a 14-year old boying watching this and thinking, hmmm, I’d like to try some of that, and next thing you know we have one of these teenage pregnancies no one can understand.
When you push sex on kids 24/7, including schools classes, sex ed, magazines, etc, then they are going to have sex. Sex leads to pregnancy. These are CHILDREN. It’s hard enough for adults to properly and consistently use contraception. And we want to put that burden on kids who should be focusing on their homework?
There’s only one guarantee not to get pregnant, and that is not to have sex. Abstinence programs (Christian or not) over and over have success. Handing out condoms never has been shown to reduce either pregnancy or disease. Condoms are only 80 percent effective with ADULTS, and we expect some fumbling nervous teenager to figure this out. Even if you accept the premise that kids should have sex, it’s a terrible burden to put upon them. They cannot handle this responsibility and after decades of sex ed we know for a fact it does not work, in fact as detrimental psychological and social effects, especially on the girls.
I agree on all points that you make, and I believe that it’s only a matter of a very short time until we start seeing ads here in he USA targeted at children, letting them know about ‘sexual health treatmets’ that are available to them. The word ‘abortion’ has become so ‘stigmatized’, after all....and we can’t be making the children feel bad about what they’re doing when they go in to have their own children murdered, with the blessings of the Government, no less. Sorry to sound so cynical; this whole subject is terribly saddening and it’s difficult to have hope.