Posted on 08/23/2013 7:09:11 AM PDT by markomalley
Parents of teenagers should allow their children to have sex in their home or even live together, according to a recent column in USA Today.
“Letting your teenager have a boyfriend or girlfriend sleep over, or even move in, takes away the ‘sneaking around’ aspect of teenage romance, and that also is a good thing,” wrote columnist Amanda Marcotte, who also writes for the radical feminist blog Jezebel and the pro-abortion blog RH Reality Check.
According to Marcotte, teenage cohabitation is a growing trend. “As youthful cohabitation rises, parents should accept it and educate their children on sex,” she wrote.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that nearly 10 percent of girls in the U.S. have lived with a boyfriend by age 18. By age 20, the number is more than a quarter.
In the Netherlands, Marcotte says, sex sleepovers are common, with 93 percent of Dutch parents saying they would allow their teenage children to have sex inside their home.
“Although these changes might make some people uncomfortable, the evidence suggests that it's a good thing,” Marcotte wrote. Teenage cohabitation reduces early marriage and fertility rates, allowing young women to focus on their careers.
“Researchers Wendy Manning and Jessica Cohen of Bowling Green State University found that as teenage cohabitation rates rose, teenage marriage rates declined. While it is true that some of the teenage cohabitants gave birth, getting married in your teens is still the surer route to having a baby very young,” she wrote.
Marcotte admits cohabitating teen couples are “more likely to have unstable situations with their family of origin,” but she says even kids from troubled homes can benefit from “using cohabitation the way adults in their 20s do, as a way to save money and spend time with a partner without having to commit to a marriage before they [feel] ready.”
As an example, she held up actress Angelina Jolie, whose mother allowed her daughter’s boyfriend to move in when she was just 14.
“It was the smartest thing my mother could have done because, this way, we weren't hanging out in a park together," Jolie told British tabloid The Sun in 2011. “We lived like a married couple for two years. By the time I was 16, I wanted my freedom and wanted to focus on work.”
But not everyone agrees that moving in together is a good solution for hormone-crazed teenage lovers.
Christian Post columnist Jim Denison questioned Marcotte’s conclusions.
“I wondered how Angelina Jolie's early cohabitation worked out for her,” Denison wrote. “Here's what she says of her first sexual relationship: ’I got knives out and had a night where we attacked each other.’ She says she still has scars from the episode, and continued cutting herself until she became a mother.”
Denison added that Jolie went on to have an unhealthy relationship with her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, followed by a lesbian relationship.
“Her father once said publicly that she had serious mental problems: ‘She's my kid. And if she gets help, I pray that she will be able to know and to feel true love in this life,'” Denison wrote. “She and Brad Pitt have six children, but are not yet married.”
Encouraging parental acceptance of teen premarital sex has been a recurring theme of the pro-abortion movement.
Dr. Amy Schalet, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, made a similar plea in a talk sponsored by Planned Parenthood last year. Sexual openness, she claimed, created “a new closeness with [the teen girl's] family.”
Much of Schalet’s work is funded by the Ford Foundation.
“Good parents and morality are stumbling blocks to Planned Parenthood,” Rita Diller, the national director of the American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood project, told LifeSiteNews.com at the time. Promoting an “ideal of a ‘sex playhouse’ for teens in the family home is one more manifestation of its tireless quest to promote sex among unmarried youth.”
Not in my house and over my dead body.
But I trust that, at some point, the courts will pass a law saying I must.
Liberalism proving once again that lowering standards just leads to lowering standards.
The Left isn't even pretending to be moral anymore.
Oh THERE’S a viewpoint that will resonate with parents.
It’s nice to see the Left outing themselves as utter loons completely out of touch with the norm.
Yes, and this should include homosexuality, bestiality, and pedophilia as well!
After all, these kids must experiment with every possible perversion to know which one is ‘right’ for them.
So why does society need a moral standard again?
Well that suggestion would certainly give a boost to business of the abortionists. More teen pregnancies = more abortion = more blood $$.
My father makes book on the corner,
My mother makes illicit gin.
My sister sells kisses to sailors,
My God how the money rolls in.
*Chorus*
Rolls in , rolls in,
My God how the money rolls in, rolls in.
Rolls in, rolls in, rolls in,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
My mother’s a bawdy house keeper,
Every night when the evening grows dim.
She hangs out a little red lantern,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
My sister’s a barmaid in Sydney,
For a shilling she’ll strip to the skin.
She’s stripping from morning to midnight,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
My brother’s a poor missionary,
He saves fallen women from sin.
He’ll save you a blonde for a guinea,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
My Grandad sells cheap prophylactics,
And punctures the teats with a pin.
For Grandma gets rich from abortions,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
Uncle Joe is a registered plumber,
His business in holes and in tin.
He’ll plug up your hole for a tanner,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
Aunt Mary makes deals with the milkman,
The mailman and newsboy named Ben.
For a piece of pie and Aunt Mary,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
Uncle Tommy was once in a prison,
Where he was a joy to the men,
Now he bends over for business,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
Aunt Joan keeps a girl’s seminary,
Teaching young girls to begin.
She doesn’t say where they will finish,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
My cousin’s a Harley Street surgeon,
With instruments long, sharp and thin.
He only does one operation,
My God how the money rolls in.
(Chorus)
I’ve lost all me cash on the horses,
I’m sick from the illicit gin.
I’m falling in love with me sister,
My God what a mess I am in.
(Chorus)
My daughter was a classmate and friend of hers, so we went as a courtesy. My daughter's party was in a rented hall (less than $70) and served soft drinks, chips and dip, snack foods and the like. We cleaned things up at 10 p.m., thanked everyone for coming and told them that the rental time was over. Everyone thanked us and cleared out.
His daughter's party was catered with tents, booths and the whole nine yards. They had an open bar as well as snacks featuring salmon spread, caviar and almost anything you could imagine. The Dad was serving obviously underage classmates at the bar. I asked him about it and he gave me the same logic: "I'd rather do it here in a controlled environment than having the kids sneaking around doing it on their own."
We went home about 10 p.m. I heard the party lasted until about 3 a.m. One of the kids who attended wrapped his car around a tree on the way home. Fortunately, he survived. But the injuries were serious enough that the libtard Dad ended up with a lawsuit which required them to move out of their fancy home.
I am proud to say I have not seen any movie she is in.
We should have “accepted” uncle Adolf and his Third Reich too, right Mandy? You retard.
“Teens” becoming feral, predatory murderers is also on “the rise” in this sewer. I guess we should “accept” that too, right Mandy?! You expert, liberal moron.
We generally think "teens: are like .. 13 - 18 .. (19 is almost adult in most people's eyes), so I suggest the article is priming the pump for 9 and 10 year olds.
“”takes away the ‘sneaking around””
HORRORS! Everyone knows that allowing teenage sex in your home is preferable to “sneaking around” or in Jolie’s case (mental case, by the way), “hanging out in parks”. These people are mad - as in insane mad!! Jolie will raise 6 maladjusted children and Pitt will continue to smile which doesn’t say a heck of a lot for his mental health either.
I think they stole this article from the HuffPo a couple of weeks ago.
Readers Digest was running stuff in the late 60’s/early 70’s that did not sound much different.
Statistics also say that co-habitation is the worst thing you can do if you are ever seeking a successful lifelong marriage.
Marriage is so meaningless to these people. It used to imply a lifelong commitment.
Oscar Brand?
I recognized the name.
What she writes here is completely consistent with her history.
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