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To: laurav
Your post counsels dispair: they're gonna do it, so don't try to stop them.

While my youth was many years ago, when I was in high school and college, some kids had sex, some didn't, and as the kids got older and moved from high school to college, the number of virgins dropped precipitously. As far as it goes, it's true that if kids are really determined to have a bit of the old in-out (as Alex put it in A Clockwork Orange, they will find a way.

Where you're wrong, I think, is in thinking you can have no influence over whether they want to have sex or not, how much they want to, and with whom.

By raising kids with sound moral values, who know they are loved, and have real self-respect, you reduce the likelihood that your kids will have sex because they don't feel good about themselves and want someone to love them. You will reduce the likelihood they will have sex because they don't have anything else to do if they're active in school, athletics, music, church or any combination of the above.

None of these things will guarantee you kids won't have sex before marriage. If you're really lucky, your kids will wait until marriage. If your just pretty lucky, they'll wait until they're in a real relationship with another young person who respects them and isn't using them.

In any event, not to try is to increase the likelihood they'll be used by someone who regards them as simply a piece of meat.

41 posted on 05/21/2003 12:03:47 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
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To: CatoRenasci
I think you have a good point about doing your best to make sure your child isn't being used. If I found out my (hypothetical) 16-year-old daughter was being pressured into having sex with an older guy who I didn't think respected her or the family, I'd be furious. If I found out my 16-year-old daughter was having sex with her similarly aged boyfriend and they both seemed to love each other and were being very careful about preventing pregnancy, I'd be mad and probably make it much harder for her to see him, but I'd be a lot more understanding.
65 posted on 05/21/2003 1:26:44 PM PDT by laurav
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