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.”
hell snaeking around was part of the excitement
I think my parents "allowing" me to have sex in the house would have made me want to go to a ball game or read a book.
Five’ll get you ten, the parents will be recording the action on disc.
“Here’s little Johnny, when he was ten, playing league softball.”
“Here’s little Johnny, at 14, when he and Sally from down the street, had sex for the first time. Aren’t they just adorable?”
What, no dope and alcohol supplied by the parents?. That would ensure the childrens didn’t do something really stupid , like smoke some cigs.
The moral rot began before the moral rot began: the Evil One laid the foundations for the current situation by creating circumstances in which ostensibly Christian societies obliged young people to remain unmarried for years or more than a decade after reaching sexual maturity. The normal states of Christian life are holy matrimony and monasticism, anything else is unstable and spiritually dangerous.
So long as men could get gainful employment with what was then an eight-grade education, teenagers could marry and raise children beginning within a few years of reaching sexual maturity. Enforcing a long stretch of celibate chastity on young people just when the temptations provided by their hormones are strongest was always a bad idea. The Church’s long experience has shown that long-term celibate chastity needs intense spiritual supports (a monastic rule of prayer or the rule of prayer observed by Latin Rite priests, plus obedience to some sort of spiritual oversight — an abbot or bishop — at minimum). Unfortunately I have no idea how to get from where we are to a situation in which society really supports traditional morality by having extended families live together so that people could marry within a few years of reaching sexual maturity and still have the wherewithal to get the education needed to function in modern society.
““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”
-—’Loonier than a toon. Let’s make sure to take away any semblence of morality or a sense of guilt
"Sneaking around"? Good. Gives them time to comtemplate their actions and the consequences of same and if what they're doing is the fit thing, rather than just giving them you're blessing and telling them it's fine.
At what age should this activity be promoted and condoned,
3,6,8,10,15,16,18, and when “they” decide the age, pray tell what magical formula “they” imposed to come to a conclusion?
leftists are sick freaks all around
No clue. I'd have to say "traditional". I first came across it in an n-th generation xeroxed booklet of dirty versions of traditional songs.
The left is full of perverts looking for any and every way to sexualize children at the youngest age possible to destroy their hearts and minds. That seems to be their mode of operation.
I don't either, but I think the answer will present itself to us in the next decade or so.
It will be accompanied by a body-count in nine digits in this country and ten digits worldwide.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
It should be a cold day in Hell when anyone listens to any of the garbage spewed from the mouth of amanda. What’s next for this pervert??? Recommending that we let our children cohabit with our pet dog? What a subhuman piece of garbage.
One of the goals of the leftoids was to destroy traditional American families and American culture and portray it as perverse..
Given the divorce rate, high number of single parents, and the complete degeneracy I see on TV and in the “music” kids listen to — they’ seem to be doing a fine job of it.
Among the “goals of communism” printed in the Congressional Record of January 10, 1963 are these sad lines:
“Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.”
I read her bio and it looks like she isn’t married and doesn’t have any children.
But, to the left, that gives her the right to pontificate to the rest of us what is and isn’t normal.
Why should I listen to this childless old shrew when it comes to child rearing? Or Marriage? Or anything else for that matter.
++++“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,”++++
I am considering having my attorney file a chronology discrimination lawsuit against this writer, the educators who sat at the desks in my classrooms, society in general, etc.
I have been discriminated against based upon the time I was born!
When I was a teen there were no such persons advocating for sex parties for My benefit.
Dat discriminatory!
;-)
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