Posted on 08/12/2009 7:12:14 PM PDT by iowamark
I think a lot of adults are in the dark about the extreme sexualization of America's teens.
Just so long as they’re using taxpayer funded condoms it’s all ok....
But it hasn't always been that way.
Or it could be that spiritual poverty often leads to physical poverty.
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just EEWWWWWWWWWWWWWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
They probably are. I taught sex ed (9th graders) in TX for about 5 years starting in 2000. These kids thought they knew it all. Sadly, much of what they *knew* was not so.
I was concerned that too many people were losing their virginity as teenagers. However, this is not the way I hoped to reduce the problem.
I was concerned that too many people were losing their virginity as teenagers. However, this is not the way I hoped to reduce the problem.
School tells them to have sex, TV tells them to have sex, music tells them to have sex, movies tell them to have sex, freinds and “home boys” tell them to have sex, they don’t go to church and their parents don’t tell them anything.
Why would anyone be surprused?
These adults don’t watch TV?
These are the adults that don’t care if you ask me
I think anyone with half a brain isn’t confused or misinformed about kids having sex, especially those in that “low income” area.
Sure, the sexualization of America’s kids has been ongoing to anyone that bothered to notice. It ain’t new. But again, just because something is legal or encouraged doesn’t mean it’s happening at the level that is claimed doesn’t mean everyone is doing it. Ask any teen boy how often he’s getting laid and if he’s not lying, it’s not what most of these studies would claim. Sure, more girls are having or admitting to having sex, and it’s not as “shameful” as it once was, but keep in mind what demographic is being studied. This is not new.
It hasn’t always been so out in the open but it was happening decades ago (hell hundreds of years ago, too).
My oldest brother grew up in the 50s, was a teen in the late 50s and he had sex as a teen. It did happen back then and way before then. It wasn’t talked about.
I blame Clinton.
Kids from single homs tend to be left alone a lot more than those who don’t have single Mothers. Kids left with no supervision will find something to do!
That should be “single parent homes”
I guess we’re seeing the results of long term decline in religious faith and practice in strong families.
Kick God out of schools
Kick God out of the public square
Kick morality out of entertainment/media
Worship pedophiles as superstar “king of -————”
Give a rapist and sex-fiend freak two terms in the White House
Kick parents out of health care decisions for their minor children.
And what does it get you????
duh...
And one look at the little girls section of your local department store and you will assume that 98% of clothing designers are pedophiles - What I refer to as “hoochie momma” clothing fill the majority of shelves.
With a 5 year-old and a 3 year-old, I get rather frustrated when I am with the wife looking for clothes. You would think that the nation’s initial shock over such high-profile cases as the JonBenét Ramsey case would have turned on some lights of reason... but alas - the sexualization of children just gets worse. Any sexualization of a child is just wrong. So sad, but a picture of where we are going. It is the same sick and corrupt mentality that brings us the dominance of the liberals in politics.
And you know who’s fault it is? Everyone who calls themselves a “Christian” or who even claims to have morals - who buy the garbage anyway. How many million families in the US CLAIM to be Christian? As a pastor, I get so frustrated preaching about moral issues - then having children show up in some of this very garbage - or coming in “fashions” from soft-porn vendors like Abercrombie & Fitch who are some of the big players in not only sexualization of children (or do you turn a blind eye to the mostly naked, and often engaged in soem sort of sexual behavior so often used in their ads?), but also promote homosexual events and causes.
If every person claiming to be a “moral person”, or a Christian wouldn’t buy the junk - guess what - it would disappear, or be a lot less common.
But just like the garbage Hollywood gives us - wouldn’t be so much trash if folks didn’t buy it.
Things have really “progressed”.
I remember hearing a conversation among child evangelism workers back in the mid-70s who conducted after-school bible groups, etc. They were saying that the scuttlebutt among elementary school students in the inner city went something like this:
Q: What’s a virgin?
A: An ugly 6th grader.
Looks like we have “progressed” to where, nowadays, the answer might be “an ugly 3rd or 4th grader.
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